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He was born in 1782 in Chorrillos, Lima. His parents were a fisherman, his name was Jose Apolinario and Melchora Balandra. He had a one brother, his name was Cecilio and four sisters, they were Mercedes, Narcisa, Josefa y Manuela

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He grew up serving since young the liberting cause so in 1820 he carried messages between Chorrillos and ships that arrives to the coast.

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Jose Olaya was a worker man. He loved his work, Jose was a fisherman. He learned to swim because his job was to sell fish.

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Jose Olaya loved his land so much that he joined the 'Escuadra Libertadora' led by Thomas Cochrane in 1820.

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José Olaya supported and served his country by carryying secret messages from one place to another by sea. It resisted the intense cold of the waters

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On June 27 of1823, when he was carrying a letter from Sucre to Narciso de la Colina, the fisherman was discovered. It is said that after someone betrayed him  and captured in the street of Acequia Alta. Before his decision, two days later, on June 29, he was shot in the alley of Petateros, located on one side of the Plaza de Armas in Lima, which today bears the martyr's name. It is said that, before dying.

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He was shot in the passage of the Plaza Mayor de Lima, today Pasaje Olaya.

Olaya died the same day that Chorrillos, his town, celebrates the festival to the patron saint of fishermen, San Pedro. For that reason, this morning, in Chorrillos the name of Olaya is heard with force.