Storry (musician)

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Storry
Storry at The Great Escape festival in Brighton.jpg
Storry in 2025
Background information
Birth nameDina Koutsouflakis
Born Toronto, Ontario, Canada
GenresEclectic R&B, [1] Pop
OccupationsSinger, Songwriter, Producer, Director, Visual Artist
Website https://www.storrymusic.com

Dina Koutsouflakis, known professionally as Storry, 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]

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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] At university she was in an abusive relationship, [2] and after studying yoga in India turned to music. [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.[ citation needed ]

In 2024, she auditioned for the thirteenth series of The Voice UK . All four coaches, will.i.am, LeAnn Rimes, Tom Jones, and Tom & Danny, "turned their chairs" and expressed interest in working with her. She ultimately chose to be on Team will.i.am. [9] She made it to the finale where she finished as a runner-up.

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. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 16 September 2022.
  2. 1 2 David Friend, "Juno Award nominee Storry on leaving sex industry behind for music" Archived 2020-11-24 at the Wayback Machine . Global News, March 10, 2020.
  3. ↑ "STORRY Shares Claymation Video for "Up" | Exclaim!". exclaim.ca. Archived from the original on 2022-05-22. Retrieved 2022-05-22.
  4. ↑ Melody Lau, "Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations" Archived 2020-06-30 at the Wayback Machine . CBC Music, January 28, 2021.
  5. ↑ Holly Gordon, "The Weeknd, JP Saxe, Jessie Reyez and Justin Bieber lead 2021 Juno Award nominations" Archived 2021-03-25 at the Wayback Machine . 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. 1 2 Nick Krewen, "From opera trainee to sex worker to Juno-nominated artist: Storry’s tale isn’t ordinary" Archived 2021-01-20 at the Wayback Machine . Toronto Star , February 19, 2020.
  8. ↑ "Juno-nominated Storry fell back in love with making music by reading this 2011 self-help book" Archived 2020-03-17 at the Wayback Machine . The Next Chapter , March 6, 2020.
  9. ↑ "The Voice UK act shares connection to Tom Jones". Digital Spy. 2024-09-07. Archived from the original on 2024-09-14. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
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