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About Dido
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). So began the recording of Dido's debut album, No Angel. The album was produced by Dido, her brother Rollo (obviously now deciding she should give up her day job), Rick Nowels and Youth, and what a beautiful album it is. Unified by both Dido's stunning voice and lyrical acuteness, the album travels through various and diverse styles ranging from the impassioned magnificence of "Here With Me," the gentle soulfulness of "ThankYou" (featured in the recent Gwyneth Paltrow movie Sliding Doors), the deep dubbiness of "Honestly ok," to the lyrical perversity of "Don't Think of Me."
Combining Dido's love for warm acoustic sounds and her brother's fascination for beats and all things electronic, the album is both new and classic at the same time. Above all, it is the quality of the songs that will make this album both durable and successful. Dido will shortly release her debut solo single in the USA, the epic, wide-screen "Here With Me" (mid May), shortly followed by the release of her eclectic album "No Angel" (June). She is currently on a massive promo trip throughout America where she will be performing key acoustic gigs with a stripped down-whacked out band of acoustic guitar, bass, percussion and DJ scratch/mixer. Dido will join the fantastically successful Lillith Tour in America later this year. Dido has a gorgeous melancholic, lilting voice and some extraordinary flowing, witty and ultimately charming lyrics. You will have discovered a taste of things to come from the album sampler and a little of her beautiful Islington/Dublin features from the picture samples. The American press has broadly welcomed Dido. From cool style tastemakers such as Bikini and Interview Magazine to the all-powerful women's magazine Elle (USA) to Time magazine & Entertainment Weekly. Dido, as you know, is the sister of the multi-talented Rollo (owner of Cheeky Records & founder of the million selling group Faithless, remixer, producer and he can write upside down). Henceforth she was signed to his little (but successful! ) UK independent label Cheeky.
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