(Finished December 10th, 2017) themusicaddict Wonders What Happened To Dido?

Hello,

First up I would like to thank both Wikipedia.org and digitalspy.com for most of the biographical details in this blog. I don't have the same resources as even a small size media company has. If I was able to I would love to interview Dido and see where she has been and what we can expect in the future. But that is highly unlikely so I rely on the great work of others. Thanks to both of those organizations.

Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong was born on December 25th, 1971. Happy 46th birthday in a couple of weeks Dido.

Dido's first CD came out in 1995, but I hadn't heard of "Odds and Ends" until working on this blog. It was more of a demo than an actual release. Dido first broke out in 1999, although her first two singles didn't make much of an impact. I'm surprised that neither "Here With Me" and "Don't Think Of Me" made much of an impact, both of those are great songs. It wasn't until "Thank You" come out until she started breaking out. I'm loathe to give Eminem any credit for anything, but he did sample the first verse from "Thank You" for "Stan". At least there's some hope for Eminem.

Anyway since I have the coolest Mom in the world, she was actually the one that introduced me this CD. I remember listening to it with her as we went to a basketball game. Her first CD, "No Angel" is such a great CD. Sadly she had the first CD curse, an amazing first CD that she hasn't come close to matching again. "No Angel" has 10 very solid songs on it. "No Angel" sold over 21 million copies. She has barely had that many decent songs in her ensuing three follow up CDs.

"Life For Rent" came out 4 years later, in 2003, and it has the very solid "White Flag" and 3 other decent songs. But clearly Dido took a step back on this record and it wasn't like she rushed back into the studio. In 2005 she released a live CD, "Live At Brixton Academy". These songs played live have a bit more muscle on them as she fleshes out the songs in concert. She still retains her amazingly beautiful voice. This is a few selections from that her live CD.

Then it was 5 more years until her next CD, the not very good at all "Safe Trip Home". That 2008 CD has 3 decent, but not groundbreaking, songs. It was a couple of years later before she released her next solid song, "Everything To Lose". The song is from the "Sex and the City 2" soundtrack. In 2013 she released her most recent release, "Girl Who Got Away". If you buy this CD, which I wouldn't recommend at all, buy the deluxe version. Three of the CD's four decent songs are on the bonus disc. Too many of the songs on "Girl Who Got Away" are lifeless. When they add some extra flourishes, that's when the song takes on a life of it's own.

What has she been doing since then? In 2011, she gave birth to her first child. She was a mentor on the English version of "The Voice" in 2013, that was a busy year of her life. Dido also released her Greatest Hits CD in 2013. That Greatest Hits CD was the last CD in her contract with her record company and she was happy about it ending. They might not have been that heartbroken either as that CD only sold 800,000 copies. She reportedly started working on new music, but we haven't heard much from her since then. On July 5th, 2016 she tweeted out about how many CDs her first two actual CDs sold.

Dido I hope you are frantically working on new music and will be releasing shortly after the new year. We need your lyrical insight and amazing voice in this increasingly ugly world. We need the light and spark your music brings into the world.

"Thank You":

"Here With Me":

My favorite song from her first CD and in fact from her entire catalog. Such a great song for when one is ready to move on from a relationship. "Hunter":

"Don't Think of Me":

"I'm No Angel":

"White Flag":

"Everything To Lose":

"NYC":

themusicaddict