Dina Koutsouflakis, known professionally as Storry (stylized in

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), is a Canadian singer, songwriter, producer, director, and visual artist.David Friend
"Juno Award nominee Storry on leaving sex industry behind for music"

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, March 10, 2020. She is a two-time

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nominee, receiving nods for Reggae Recording of the Year at the

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for her single "Another Man", and for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year for her album ''CH III: The Come Up''.

Life and career

Dina Koutsouflakis was born in Canada to Lebanese and

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parents.Joshua Pickard
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'', July 28, 2022 Raised in the

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neighbourhood of

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, she studied opera at

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and shortly at the

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.Nick Krewen
"From opera trainee to sex worker to Juno-nominated artist: Storry’s tale isn’t ordinary"
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'', February 19, 2020. 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. When the relationship ended, she took a trip to

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to study

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, but decided to recommit herself to music after encountering repeated omens that music was the path she was meant to take. She released ''CH III: The Come Up'', her debut concept album, in February 2020, and followed up in September with the EP ''Interlude-19''. She identifies as

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.Kaitlin Secord
"STORRY’s newest single ‘For No One’ fuels self-expression"
''ALTo'', June 28, 2020.

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