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دایدو
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English singer and songwriter (born 1971)
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Dido, born Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong on December 25, 1971, in Kensington, is a United Kingdom-based singer, singer-songwriter, composer, and recording artist. She began her work period in 1995 and is associated with genres including pop music, pop rock, folk music, alternative rock, dance-pop, downtempo, electropop, and folktronica. Her voice type is classified as contralto and mezzo-soprano, and she plays the guitar, piano, and tambourine.
She has been educated at the University of California, Los Angeles, Westminster School, and City of London School for Girls. Dido’s relatives include Rollo Armstrong, who is also her sibling. She has recorded for RCA Records and Arista Records and was influenced by 10,000 Maniacs. Her accolades include a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. She speaks English.
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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)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to دایدو, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana