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| Background information | ||
| Birth name | Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong | |
| Born | December 25, 1971 | |
| Origin |  London , England |
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| Genre(s) | Pop, trip hop | |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter | |
| Instrument(s) | Voice, piano, guitar | |
| Years active | 1995—present | |
| Label(s) | Cheeky/Arista, Sony BMG | |
| Website | DidoMusic.com | |
Dido (born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong, December 25, 1971) is an English BRIT Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated singer and songwriter who performs under a nickname her mother gave her in childhood.
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Dido's mother, Claire (née Collins), is a French poet and
her father, William O'Malley Armstrong (9 November
1938–22
December 2006)
was an Irish
publisher and former managing director of Sidgwick & Jackson.
Informally named after the mythical Carthaginian queen, Dido was educated
at Thornhill Primary,
In 1995, Dido began recording demo tracks which were put together on a collection entitled Odds & Ends and sent out by Nettwerk management. Nettwerk had signed her after she was brought to their attention by her collaborations with Faithless (Dido co-wrote and provided vocals for album tracks, such as "Flowerstand Man" and "Hem of His Garment") and the UK dance act spearheaded by her brother, Rollo Armstrong. The collection was released by Nettwerk on CD-R acetate in 1995 and featured a mixture of finished productions and demo versions which she later considered for release on her debut album, released in 1999 as No Angel. Odds & Ends brought her to the attention of Arista Records, who signed her in the USA, striking a deal with her brother's record label, Cheeky Records, to co-sign her. Of the tracks included on Odds & Ends, "Take My Hand" was included on all editions of No Angel as a bonus track; "Sweet Eyed Baby" was remixed and renamed to "Don't Think of Me", while "Worthless" and "Me" were released exclusively on the Japanese edition.
Cheeky Records, to which Dido was signed, was sold to BMG records in 1999. This delayed the release of No Angel in the United Kingdom, but also allowed her to concentrate on promoting the album No Angel in the United States, including a slot on Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair tour. Through touring, both before and after the album was available, Dido's music began to receive more exposure. The first official single chosen by Dido and her label, "Here with Me", was used as the theme music for the television programme Roswell. However, it was arguably the airplay on MTV in Europe of the video for "Here with Me", with its inventive manipulation of context, dreamlike NYC road-walking scenes, together with Dido's evident musicality and the distinctive strings arrangement (all perhaps echoing Massive Attack/Shara Nelson's "Unfinished Sympathy"), that helped form the bedrock of her future success.
In 1998, the music producer for the film Sliding
Doors picked her track "
The rapper Eminem helped introduce Dido to another audience when he sampled the first verse of "Thank You" in his UK number-one single "Stan", after seeking permission from Dido herself; she also appeared in the music video as Stan's long-suffering girlfriend. Interest soared in her debut album, leading it to hit charts in Europe on import sales alone, charting in the top 5 on the UK albums chart before its official UK release.
No Angel went on to become the top-selling
album of 2001 in the United Kingdom, debuting at, and
returning to, number one in the official UK albums chart many times
throughout the year. It spawned two top ten hit singles, "Here with Me"
and "Thank You", and a further top twenty hit, "
Life for Rent
was released on 29 September 2003 (world), 30
September 2003
(USA & Canada) and became one of the fastest selling albums in
UK music history, debuting at number one in the UK, Ireland, France,
Denmark, Switzerland, South Africa, Australia, Greece, Mexico, Hong
Kong, Malaysia and Thailand and in the top 5 in the USA, Italy, New
Zealand, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria. Preceded by the
number-two hit single "White Flag", the music video for
which features
Following her sold-out world tour of 2004, Dido was asked to
perform at 3 of the Live 8 concerts on 2 July 2005 — performing in London, then at the
In late 2005 Dido began recording her 3rd solo album, experimenting with different sounds and producers, including Jon Brion in Los Angeles. The album was originally expected to be released in late 2006, but Dido has stated on her official website that the album will be released in early 2007. According to HMV UK and amazon UK it is scheduled to be released on November 12, 2007. In the February 2007 edition of Q magazine, it was stated that album would drop in late 2007, and that Dido was inspired by long drives along the Pacific Coast of California.
On July 31, Direct-Current.net reported that the street date circulated by Sony BMG was November 6, 2007. The album was delayed due to the death of her father.
In addition to her solo work, Dido has co-written and provided
vocals for tracks with Faithless, including "One
Step Too Far" — which was released in the UK as a limited edition
single, where it debuted at number six — and "No Roots", the title
track of the 4th Faithless album. Rollo
— Dido's brother — co-writes and co-produces a lot of Dido's solo
material, including many tracks on No Angel and Life
for Rent. She has provided guest vocals for each of the five
studio albums by Faithless, from 1996's Reverence
to 2006's To All New Arrivals.
Dido worked with her brother on a CD to accompany the children's book
he wrote with Jason White, Safe from Harm; the CD
is also titled Safe from Harm and the artist is
listed as "Dusted". In 2006 she also brought out the song "Christmas
Day" it reached #148 in the UK charts. Dido has provided guest vocals
to tracks by other artists including "Feels like Fire" for Carlos
Santana's 2002 album, Shaman, and a
duet with Rufus Wainwright entitled "I Eat
Dinner (When the Hunger's Gone)" for the
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| 1995 | Odds & Ends 1
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Sales worldwide: 12 million IFPI certification: 5× platinum RIAA certification: 4× platinum |
| 2003 | Life for Rent
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Sales worldwide: 8.6 million IFPI certification: 5× platinum RIAA certification: 2× platinum BPI certification: 9× platinum |
| Year | Song | UK | U.S. | CAN | AUS | NZ | BRA | FRA | Album | ||
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| 2000 | "Stan" (Eminem featuring Dido) | 1 | 51 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 14 | 33 | ||
| 2001 | "Here with Me" | 4 | — | — | — | — | 58 | 3 | — | 4 | No Angel |
| " |
3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 22 | — | 3 | 1 | 30 | ||
| " |
17 | — | 9 | — | — | 50 | 28 | 16 | 45 | ||
| "All You Want" | — | — | |||||||||
| "Don't Think of Me" (U.S. radio only) | — | — | |||||||||
| 2002 | "My Lover's Gone" (Brazil only) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | ||
| "Take My Hand" (U.S. radio only) | — | 1 | |||||||||
| "One Step Too Far" (Faithless featuring Dido) | 6 | — | 4 | — | — | 21 | — | — | |||
| 2003 | "Feels like Fire" (Santana featuring Dido) | — | — | — | — | — | — | 26 | — | Shaman | |
| "White Flag" | 2 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 30 | 1 | 12 | 5 | Life for Rent | ||
| " |
— | 1 | — | ||||||||
| " |
8 | — | 28 | 17 | 24 | ||||||
| 2004 | " |
25 | — | — | |||||||
| "Sand in My Shoes" | 29 | — | 1 | — | 37 |
| Dido |
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| Discography |
| Studio albums |
| No Angel · Life for Rent |
| Singles |
| "Here with Me" · " "White Flag" . " |
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