Paulina Przybysz was born in 1985, two years after Natalia. In music school, they both learned to play the cello. Aged just 9, she won the Grand Prix at the Morda Festival along with her sister. Together they started the band Cebion. They then formed Sistars as teenagers in 2001. After two successful albums, both in terms of reviews and sales, Fryderyk awards, performances at the Eurovision Song contest and at the National Festival of Polish Song in Opole, the band split up in 2006. The hip-hop/soul band with an R’n’B twist made two short-lived comebacks, although they never recorded another full album.
After Sistars disbanded, Paulina began recording under the stage name Pinnawela (inspired by an east Indian orphanage for elephants) and resigned from her previous, more 'hip-hop-esque' nickname Lil’Sista. She was influenced by the work of Erykah Badu, Prinsie, and D’Angelo, composed music on MIDI instruments and contrary to her sister, it never took her long to sit down with a piece of paper and write lyrics. A year after her debut Soulahili (2008), Paulina entered the competition at the Opole Festival with the sugary sweet song Przeczucie: ‘without his manly strength I can carry on/the question is if I want to’. Later, when she was already pregnant, she recorded Renesoul (2011), which is partly in Polish and partly in English. She also did the graphic design for it. She collaborated with Piotr Zabrodzki and Jan Młynarski on both albums.
From then on, it seems that she feels most comfortable in musical collaborations. She works simultaneously with a few musicians and bands. In an interview with T-Mobile Music she states:
I sometimes have moments of doubt, when I tell myself : Paulina, maybe you should get yourself a normal job, but… I don’t have any better ideas and I don’t want to have any, because I can’t imagine my life without making music, endless collaborations with amazing musicians and people and all different sorts of partnerships.
In June 2013, Rita Pax released their debut album. Paulina was supported by Katarzyna Piszek (known from Brodka’s and Novika’s concert line-up) and musicians from Excessive Machine – brothers Piotr and Paweł Zalewscy (classically educated musicians, with whom she attended music school), as well as Remek Zawadzki. Their creative and diverse musical arrangements combined ‘retro’ with ‘neo’, and Przybysz showed herself in a crazy cover of Lennon’s Instant Karma.
Paulina, like her sister, spoke a lot about self-acceptance on her album, although she chose a more exquisite, harmonic and rhythmical form.