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Dina Koutsouflakis, known professionally as Storry (stylized in all caps), is a Canadian singer, songwriter, producer, director, and visual artist.[2][3] She is a two-time Juno Award nominee, receiving nods for Reggae Recording of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2020 for her single "Another Man",[4] and for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year for her album CH III: The Come Up.[5]

Life and career

Dina Koutsouflakis was born in Canada to Lebanese and Greek parents.[6] Raised in the Rexdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, she studied opera at Vanier College and shortly at the University of Toronto.[7] While attending university, she embarked on a relationship that soon turned abusive, with her partner coercing her into work as an exotic dancer and controlling both her finances and her social contact with friends and family.[2] When the relationship ended, she took a trip to India to study yoga, but decided to recommit herself to music after encountering repeated omens that music was the path she was meant to take.[8]

She released CH III: The Come Up, her debut concept album, in February 2020,[7] and followed up in September with the EP Interlude-19.

She identifies as pansexual.[9]

References

  1. ^ Capitao, Brian (18 August 2020). "From Sex Worker to Dynamic R&B Artist, STORRY's Story Is Worth Telling". complex.com. Complex Networks. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  2. ^ a b David Friend, "Juno Award nominee Storry on leaving sex industry behind for music". Global News, March 10, 2020.
  3. ^ "STORRY Shares Claymation Video for "Up" | Exclaim!". exclaim.ca. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
  4. ^ Melody Lau, "Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 28, 2021.
  5. ^ Holly Gordon, "The Weeknd, JP Saxe, Jessie Reyez and Justin Bieber lead 2021 Juno Award nominations". CBC Music, March 9, 2021.
  6. ^ Joshua Pickard, "STORRY offers piano-led redux of pop devastation "Intimate Abuse"" Beats Per Minute, July 28, 2022
  7. ^ a b Nick Krewen, "From opera trainee to sex worker to Juno-nominated artist: Storry’s tale isn’t ordinary". Toronto Star, February 19, 2020.
  8. ^ "Juno-nominated Storry fell back in love with making music by reading this 2011 self-help book". The Next Chapter, March 6, 2020.
  9. ^ Kaitlin Secord, "STORRY’s newest single ‘For No One’ fuels self-expression". ALTo, June 28, 2020.

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