Storry (musician)

Storry is the stage name of Dina Koutsouflakis, a Canadian pop singer.[1] 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",[2] and for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year for her album CH III: The Come Up.[3]

Raised in the Rexdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Koutsouflakis studied jazz and opera singing at Vanier College and the University of Toronto.[4] Following university, she embarked on a relationship that soon turned abusive, with her partner forcing her into work as a stripper but controlling both her finances and her social contact with friends and family.[1] When the relationship ended after eight years, 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.[5]

She released CH III: The Come Up, her debut album, in February 2020,[4] and followed up in September with the EP Interlude-19.

She identifies as pansexual.[6]

References
  1. David Friend, "Juno Award nominee Storry on leaving sex industry behind for music". Global News, March 10, 2020.
  2. Melody Lau, "Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 28, 2021.
  3. Holly Gordon, "The Weeknd, JP Saxe, Jessie Reyez and Justin Bieber lead 2021 Juno Award nominations". CBC Music, March 9, 2021.
  4. Nick Krewen, "From opera trainee to sex worker to Juno-nominated artist: Storry’s tale isn’t ordinary". Toronto Star, February 19, 2020.
  5. "Juno-nominated Storry fell back in love with making music by reading this 2011 self-help book". The Next Chapter, March 6, 2020.
  6. Kaitlin Secord, "STORRY’s newest single ‘For No One’ fuels self-expression". ALTo, June 28, 2020.


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