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Dido
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Dido Armstrong (born 25 December 1971) is an english BRIT Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated singer and songwriter.
Dido was born in London (England) on Christmas day; she was christened Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong. She lived with her poet mother and publisher father in London.
One day she looked up the story of her first name. “I thought it was strange that I was called after a woman who killed herself in ancient literature. It’s great for me now but there’s no denying that I hated it. That was just another thing that made me stand out.”
Young Dido enjoyed reading and playing tennis against the garden wall; when she was just 6, she was accepted into the Guildhall School of Music in London. By 10 she could play the piano, violin and recorder.
Some of her teenage years were spent touring the UK with a Classical Ensemble and waitressing at Cafe Flo in Islington. She left school to pay her way through university, and eventually enrolled as a law student at Birkbeck University.
At 16 she became enthralled with the music of jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald and her brother’s music collection.
Her brother, Rollo, plays in the group Faithless and she featured on the group’s five million selling debut album Reverence in 1995 on the tracks
Flowerstand Man which she co-wrote and Salva Mea. Dido later featured on another Faithless album Sunday 8PM in 1998 on the tracks Postcards and Hem of His Garment which she co-wrote.
Dido was born in London (England) on Christmas day; she was christened Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong. She lived with her poet mother and publisher father in London.
One day she looked up the story of her first name. “I thought it was strange that I was called after a woman who killed herself in ancient literature. It’s great for me now but there’s no denying that I hated it. That was just another thing that made me stand out.”
Young Dido enjoyed reading and playing tennis against the garden wall; when she was just 6, she was accepted into the Guildhall School of Music in London. By 10 she could play the piano, violin and recorder.
Some of her teenage years were spent touring the UK with a Classical Ensemble and waitressing at Cafe Flo in Islington. She left school to pay her way through university, and eventually enrolled as a law student at Birkbeck University.
At 16 she became enthralled with the music of jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald and her brother’s music collection.
Her brother, Rollo, plays in the group Faithless and she featured on the group’s five million selling debut album Reverence in 1995 on the tracks
Flowerstand Man which she co-wrote and Salva Mea. Dido later featured on another Faithless album Sunday 8PM in 1998 on the tracks Postcards and Hem of His Garment which she co-wrote.
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Thank You
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White Flag
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Life for Rent
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Hunter
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Sand in My Shoes
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Don't Leave Home
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Don't Think of Me
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I'm No Angel
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All You Want
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Honestly Ok
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My lover's gone
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Stoned
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Slide
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Isobel
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http://www.last.fm/group/Bring+back+the+old+Last.fm
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Jewleana wrote:
Ditto. haha. Dido. :)
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PaulSn wrote:
Dido owns.
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taminsea wrote:
Dido has a lovely voice and her music has a calming quality that I love. She is my favorite artist.
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Jay_ht wrote:
I love it!!
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idiotsdream wrote:
Dido's third album is supposedly out September 22nd isn't it?
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antiugur wrote:
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antiugur wrote:
mükemmel bir ses
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JustAKayee wrote:
I just uploaded a really nice picture of Dido. Vote on it here: http://www.last.fm/music/Dido/+images/7846037
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oceanfairy wrote:
ironic lyrics,
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juliana_martins wrote:
new album please?
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MedMonty wrote:
Love her and all but... Where is this new album!!!
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bartek18016 wrote:
:D
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moonchild___zd wrote:
dildo
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ralu4u wrote:
For Dido-Fans: Songs like: Tower, I am the dew, Elephant Girl ans Smile are FREE! http://www.lastfm.de/music/Popmonster. Kostenlose Popmonster. Endlich! Neue Pop-Perlen von Popmonster aufgeschaltet! New Songs from Popmonster. One better, than the other!
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ralu4u wrote:
Songs like: Tower, I am the dew, Elephant Girl ans Smile are free! http://www.lastfm.de/music/Popmonster Dido Fans, you could love ist!
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anzuII wrote:
Honestly if she made a new album i'd go straight to the nearest store <3 Come back Dido =) Miss Y
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GuhhQ wrote:
I cant wait for the new album, Hope it doesn't suck!
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Carla_bruni wrote:
No angel was hands down the best album. Life for Rent isn't as great, but I still love it.
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tecoapple wrote:
Isn´t Jon Brion (Fiona Apple / Aimee Mann) producing her new record?
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- Tinosoft89 connected Dido to the group Musica al Azar. yesterday evening
- _paperflower_ tagged Dido with ‘uk’. yesterday evening
- MustrumR tagged Dido with ‘pop’. yesterday afternoon
- MRKILLINGJOKE, retrospective- and Andytalian tagged Dido with ‘female vocalists’. Wednesday evening
- Andytalian tagged Dido with ‘chillout’. Wednesday morning
- Goldione connected Dido to the group Dannii. Tuesday evening
- Conchurd tagged Dido with ‘female vocalists’. Tuesday afternoon
- Taminsea tagged Dido with ‘favorite’. Tuesday morning
- Justspeakup tagged Dido with ‘pop’. Monday evening
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