DIDO
Dido (born Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong, 25 December 1971), is a British singer and songwriter. Dido attained international success with her debut album No Angel (1999). It sold over 21 million copies worldwide, and won several awards. Her next album, Life for Rent (2003), continued her success with the hit singles “White Flag” and “Life for Rent”. 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 2000’s in the UK. Dido was ranked No. 98 on the Billboard chart of the top Billboard 200 artists of the 2000’s (2000–2009) based on the success of her albums in the first decade of the 21st century. (More from Wikipedia)
I already knew that my future wife Peggy had good musical taste, even though she is a few years older than I am (okay, more than a few). I had already gotten Dido’s first album, No Angel with her in mind, and she loved it.
(December 2012)
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One of the hallmarks of the bandmembers in early punk rock bands is picking new names for themselves. Not everyone did that, and most musicians perform under their own names. For the record, as best I can tell, Frank Zappa, Fats Domino, Major Lance, Kris Kristofferson, and Stonewall Jackson are using their real names (with Fats being a nickname, though Major and Stonewall are not). Grace Slick is her married name; she was born Grace Wing. Most though not all of the one-name performers are also using one of their real names, with slight spelling changes and anglicizing here and there: Madonna, Prince, Jewel, Cher, Björk, Enya, Beck, Donovan, Morrissey, Liberace, Sade, Seal, Shakira, Rihanna, Adele, Dido, Melanie, Beyoncé, etc.
(March 2017)
