Melissa Faith Storwick (born November 13, 1998), known professionally as Faangs (formerly Charlie), is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress.
Growing up in Calgary, Storwick was obsessed with watching performers on TV, always ready to entertain strangers on trips to the grocery store with her mom.
[1] She was encouraged to take up hobbies to keep her mind active outside of school and was put into lessons to learn the trumpet and violin, eventually focussing on the piano above all, dropping the tuition and teaching herself by ear.
Eventually she was allowed to take up musical theatre in school, the challenge of combining singing, acting and dancing speaking to her burgeoning desire to entertain.
[1] Her musical heroes were Whitney Houston, The Beatles, Billie Joe Armstrong,[2] Christina Aguilera and Freddie Mercury.
[4] She later made it to the Top 6, along with contestants Parker Schmidt, Milly Benzu, Shania Fillmore, April Llave, and JD Meeboer.
[4] It was announced in 2013 that Storwick would be playing the role of Piper Gray in the YTV show, Some Assembly Required.
[1] Storwick travelled to Berlin for writing sessions with German quartet Hitimpulse, living in their studio for four months, working on songs.
Storwick then ended up signing with Sony in Germany under the supervision of the European president Daniel Lieberberg.
[1] Storwick moved to Los Angeles and began writing songs for other artists and on her new persona Faangs, a name inspired by the vicious city she now called home.