Dina Koutsouflakis, known professionally as Storry, is a Canadian singer, songwriter, producer, director, and visual artist.David Friend, "Juno Award nominee Storry on leaving sex industry behind for music" . Global News, March 10, 2020. 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",Melody Lau, "Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations" . CBC Music, January 28, 2021. and for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year for her album CH III: The Come Up.Holly Gordon, "The Weeknd, JP Saxe, Jessie Reyez and Justin Bieber lead 2021 Juno Award nominations" . CBC Music, March 9, 2021.
Life and career Dina Koutsouflakis was born in Canada to Lebanese and Greek parents.Joshua Pickard, "STORRY offers piano-led redux of pop devastation "Intimate Abuse"" Beats Per Minute, July 28, 2022 Raised in the Rexdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, she studied opera at Vanier College and shortly at the University of Toronto.Nick Krewen, "From opera trainee to sex worker to Juno-nominated artist: Storry’s tale isn’t ordinary" . Toronto Star, February 19, 2020. At university she was in an abusive relationship, and after studying yoga in India turned to music."Juno-nominated Storry fell back in love with making music by reading this 2011 self-help book" . The Next Chapter, March 6, 2020.
She released CH III: The Come Up, her debut concept album, in February 2020, and followed up in September with the EP Interlude-19.
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. She made it to the finale where she finished as a runner-up.
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