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Dido
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English singer and songwriter (born 1971)
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Dido, born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong on 1971-12-25 in Kensington, is a British singer, singer-songwriter, composer, and recording artist. She began her professional work in 1995 and has performed in genres including pop music, pop rock, folk music, alternative rock, dance-pop, downtempo, electropop, and folktronica. Her musical influences include 10,000 Maniacs.
Educated at Westminster School, City of London School for Girls, and the University of California, Los Angeles, Dido speaks English. She possesses a contralto and mezzo-soprano voice and plays the guitar, piano, and tambourine. She has been affiliated with RCA Records and Arista Records.
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Kensington, London, United Kingdom
Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong (born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong), known mononymously as Dido, is an English singer and songwriter.
Known for
- Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery — Self2025
- Stans — Self (archive footage)2025
- Dido: Live at Baloise Session 2019 — Self - Vocals, Guitar2019
- Dido: In Concert at BBC's Maida Vale Studios — self2019
- Live 8 — Self2005
- Dido: Live at Brixton Academy — Self - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar2004
- Eminem: All Access Europe — Self2002
- The Best of Max — Self2002
- Eminem E — Self2000
- Parkinson — Self1998
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1971
Discography
- Odds & Ends1995
- No Angel1999
- The Highbury Fields EP1999
- Don’t Think of Me2000
- Unplugged in Sacramento2000
- All You Want / Christmas Day2001
- Christmas Day2001
- Dido2001
- Dido Does Dublin2001
- Here With Me2001
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2,942,550
- Total plays
- 60,744,177
Tags
There are at least two artists with the name Dido: 1) Dido Armstrong (born 25 December 1971) is a British BRIT Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated singer and songwriter. Dido was born in London, UK 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
via Last.fm · Dido
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Armstrong
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Kensington
- Sibling
- Rollo Armstrong
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Educated at
- City of London School for Girls
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- music composing
- Genre
- folk music
- Instrument
- musical keyboard
- Discography
- Dido discography
- Official website
- didomusic.com
- Image
- DidoHamm081219-40 (49217235178) -cropped.jpg
- Voice type
- contralto
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- Commons category
- Dido (singer)
- date of birth
- 1971-12-25
- topic's main category
- Category:Dido (singer)
- birth name
- Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong
- influenced by
- 10,000 Maniacs
- topic has template
- Template:Dido
- start of work period
- 1995-00-00
- social media followers
- 117732
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Original Song
- relative
- Rollo Armstrong
Sources (2)
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Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Dido, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong (born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong, 25 December 1971), known mononymously as Dido (/ˈdaɪdoʊ/ DY-doh), is an English singer and songwriter. She attained international success with her debut album No Angel (1999); hit singles from the album include "Here with Me" and "Thank You". It sold over 21 million copies worldwide and won her several awards, including two Brit Awards; additionally, she won Best British Album and Best British Female as well as the MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act. The first verse of "Thank You" is sampled in "Stan", a critically acclaimed collaboration with American rapper Eminem. Her next album, Life for Rent (2003), continued her success with the hit singles "White Flag" and "Life for Rent". In 2004, Dido performed with other British and Irish artists in the Band Aid 20 version of the charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?".
Dido's first two albums are among the best-selling albums in UK chart history, and both are in the top 10 best-selling albums of the 2000s in the UK. Her third studio album, Safe Trip Home (2008), received critical acclaim but failed to achieve the commercial success of her previous efforts. Dido was ranked No. 98 on the Billboard Decade-End artists of the 2000s (2000–2009). In 2011, Dido's duet with A. R. Rahman, "If I Rise", was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 83rd Academy Awards.
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