
Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong (born 25 December 1971), known professionally as Dido ( 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 it 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 duplicate the commercial success of her previous efforts. Dido was ranked No. 98 on the Billboard chart of the top Billboard 200 artists of the 2000s (2000–2009) based on the success of her albums in the first decade of the 21st century. 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.
Dido made a comeback in 2013, releasing her fourth studio album, Girl Who Got Away, which reached the top 5 in the UK. Having taken time out of the music industry to raise her son, she reappeared on stage at the 2013 Reading and Leeds festival where she reunited with Eminem. Dido released her fifth studio album, Still on My Mind, on 8 March 2019 and embarked on her first tour in 15 years in support of the new album. In May 2019, Dido received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers, and Authors. In 2020, Dido co-released The Last Summer (Deluxe Edition), a studio album in collaboration with her brother R Plus (Rollo Armstrong).
It's also my upload.
Well done, Alexandra!
She gave up the music career, changed her name to Dildo and now she makes a living from the 'click' royalties on Google searches.
Wow. I think that's the most sophomoric statement I've ever seen on RP.
Dido reminds me of my trip home after 4 months travelling around India with the Mrs
in 2004. Along with a lot of Goa trance, psytrance and Prem Joshua, Dido's first 2 albums somehow made it into our constant rotation. We pretty much only listened to EDM at the time so she was a definite outlier and I only ever discovered her because of Eminem, what a strange and glorious world of music we all inherit.
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She has got a great voice. It would be wrong to call it a guilty pleasure, I don't feel in the least bit guilty.
Pretty cool live version on her DVD too.
Dido is one whose commercial success is utterly, completely inexplicable to me. Every single song is the same monotonous, droning, faux-ambient mess as the last. The woman sounds like she downed a couple fistfuls of Ativan chased with a tumbler of tequila, woke up, and started to sing (or rather, "sing"). And if you see her live, it's actually shocking — she can't carry a tune in a catcher's mitt, and wanders around the stage looking confused. She is AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL.
Well, I wasn't planning on seeing Dido, particularly since her commercial success seems to have been a fad. But don't dump on her. By your own admission, she has a devoted following, so many enjoy her music. I'm not a member of that club but my tastes run eccentric but those songs resonated with the audience she intended. Anyway, I've no special claim to assert my aesthetic sensibilities are superior to anyone else. We like what we like. The rest is mental masturbation.
Sweet face, sweet voice
Dido is one whose commercial success is utterly, completely inexplicable to me. Every single song is the same monotonous, droning, faux-ambient mess as the last. The woman sounds like she downed a couple fistfuls of Ativan chased with a tumbler of tequila, woke up, and started to sing (or rather, "sing"). And if you see her live, it's actually shocking — she can't carry a tune in a catcher's mitt, and wanders around the stage looking confused. She is AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL.
Too bad, Holborne. Your loss.
"I'll make you weaker like a child"
If you take this song as being about drug addiction, then the line is not strange at all.
Wow. I think that's the most sophomoric statement I've ever seen on RP.
Stick around. There's more.