Despite her birth name, she was known from childhood by the name Dido, and she considers this as her real name, and not simply a stage name or nickname. Dido was born in Kensington, London, on Christmas Day She celebrates her 48th birthday in As she was born on Christmas Day, she also celebrates an "official birthday" on June 25, just like Paddington Bear.
She then married screenwriter Rohan Gavin in They have one son together, Stanley, who was born in July See more Latest Music News. Dido Armstrong was born and raised in London, England; she was the daughter of book publisher William Armstrong and his wife, Claire, a homemaker whose hobby was writing poetry.
Her parents named her after a Carthaginian queen. The Armstrong household did not have a television during Dido's childhood, so she found other ways to entertain herself. At the age of five, she stole a recorder from her school's lost and found and discovered a passion for music as a result.
Without any prompting from her parents, she practiced for six hours a day and sometimes more. The following year, she began attending the Guildhall School of Music in London, where she added the violin and piano to her talents. Dido discussed her early dedication in an interview with Jeff Chu at Time Europe. As a teenager, Dido toured the United Kingdom with a classical music ensemble, primarily focused on her chosen instruments.
But when she was 16, her focus started to shift. She discovered the music of Ella Fitzgerald and became very interested in singing. Dido's brother, Rollo, who had begun pursuing his own musical career, discouraged her from her new direction. Undaunted like her warrior namesake, Dido followed her dream anyway and began performing with a variety of bands in London.
At the same time, she worked for a book publishing company and attended law school. She started in publishing as an assistant and eventually moved up to become a literary agent. In the mid—s, Dido finally convinced her brother of her abilities and landed a spot as a backup singer with Rollo's trip—hop group Faithless.
The group's debut album, Reverence, sold more than five million copies, and Dido decided to explore the idea of writing and performing her own music.
It's such a different thing when I went on alone. I was like, 'Why is everyone looking at me? Although she had been making good money as a literary agent, she decided to take a year off, with her supervisor's blessing, to work on her music career full time.
Her boss assured her that she could have her old job back if things did not work out. She spent part of her new free time touring with Faithless and part of the time writing and recording her own songs. A year to the day after she left her job, she signed a recording contract with the Arista label.
Although she had not sent her demo tape to anyone at Arista, the record company invited her to meet with the head of the company, Clive Davis, at the Dorchester Hotel in London. It became clear that the meeting was a success when Davis became enthused enough to jump in with backing vocals for her performance.
And it was likely an inevitable choice because apparently, Dido isn't really fond of her given name and criticizes her folks for finalizing it for her. It's one of the most irritating things that my parents did to me. I'm still irritated by it. Florian is a German man's name. That's just mean. To give your child a whole lot of odd names. They were all so embarrassing," she said to The Guardian in Her interest in music began when she was young, as she attended a performing arts school called the Guildhall School of Music.
There, she learned how to play instruments, particularly the piano and violin. But she then discovered her singing talents and wanted to sing. In the late '90s, she started singing with several bands before landing with her brother's band.
Rollo had his own music career as producer with the group Faithless. This was Dido's first opportunity at recording music. With Faithless, she mostly sang to provide backup vocals via The Guardian. But she was in the early stages of jump-starting her own music career. In , she recorded and released her debut album titled "No Angel. While Dido didn't know it then, her career was about to explode when she got word that an American rapper wanted to sample her song via MTV News.
When Eminem reached out to Dido in , he wanted to use the chorus from "Thank You" for his forthcoming song, "Stan. That creative decision turned out to be one of the greatest choices for Dido's fairly new music career.
Her own album, which had gone into obscurity, was back in demand again.
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