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Born: December 25,1971
Hometown: London, England
Dido was five when she stole her first recorder.
This didn't lead to prison, but rather to her
entrance one year later to the Guildhall School of
Music in London. A bit of a child prodigy, by the
time she was 10 she played piano, violin, and the
aforementioned recorder.
Her teenage years were an interesting mixture of
stealing her brother's record collection (from The
Clash to Gregory Isaac's to Duran Duran) and touring
the UK with her classical music ensemble and then,
at 16, she finally fell in love... with Ella
Fitzgerald.
So began a passion that eventually led Dido from
listener to participator. She started singing with
various bands in and around London, and despite the
fact that her brother, Rollo, told her not to give
up her day job, she eventually appeared on the debut
album of a band that Rollo formed in 1995.
This band was faithless, and they went on to sell in
excess of five million records. Over the next two
years, Dido toured with faithless (a very different
experience from her classical days) and, whenever
she was back in London, also recorded demos of her
own songs.
On Faithless's current release, Sunday 8pm, Dido
appears on two songs, one of which incorporates her
own "My Lover's Gone." Arista records
heard these demos at the beginning of 1997, and Dido
was invited to the Dorchester hotel in London to
meet Clive Davis. the meeting was successful (Clive
even helped out with some of the backing vocals as
Dido sung to him).
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