About Dido
作者: 俗人冰淇淋 发表日期: 2007-01-15 18:09 点击数: 315
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Dido
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).
Miss Armstrong struts on stage as the sun sets on Hylands Park; she's become a diva for the masses, dedicated to the cause.
And as the opening chords play out, it's clear that her music has built her into a superstar, more than prepared to pull out all the stops for such an occasion. The band can all perform, orchestra hits, crazy percussion, and the biggest kick drum we've heard thus far at V2004. But it's the lush synths that prepare us for headliners, Muse and our arms are all above our heads.
This doesn't detract from the fact that every one of Dido's songs is immaculately crafted. And each has been built up into a danceable tune for the festival feel. She promised a fantastic show, and that's exactly what we were given.
Dido appeared in the Top 100 British Artists at number 59, and in the All Time Top 500 with White Flag (211), Here With Me (236), Thank You (272).
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英国才女歌手蒂朵 Dido
全名：Florian Cloude De Bourneville Armstrong
出生地: 英国伦敦
第一张专辑能在上Billboard榜时间长达48周的时候仍留在十大，实在是惊人之举，2003年又再获格兰美奖提名。No Angel 这张专辑几乎由她自己完成所有的创作，再加上她的哥哥Rollo等人的制作，让这张专辑的乐风呈现Faithless一贯采取折衷的意念，融合了流行、爵士、民谣、电子音乐，而由于Dido对原音乐器的钟爱，则让原本电味十足的音乐，加入原音乐器的协调，而展现古典与摩登交织的多样风情。
Dido是英国四人超级EPIC-HOUSE/TRIP-HOP电子乐队FAITHLESS（无信念乐队）中的客席女主唱。六岁进入音乐学校就读接受正统音乐训练，其优异的表现让她在18岁时就已经拿到了钢琴、小提琴的硕士学位并参与英国古典乐团的巡回表演，直到1995年参与其兄ROLLO所组的FAITHLESS才算真正的踏入流行乐界中，集谱词写曲及制作于一身的她在参与『SUNDAY 8PM』时也开始其首张个人专辑『No Angel』的录制。
Dido在她五岁那年偷了生平第一台录音机，不过这个举动并没有令她遭受牢狱之灾，反而使她在一年后进入了伦敦Guildhall School of Music（盖德霍尔）音乐学校就读。
蒂朵从小就是个音乐神童，10岁时精通钢琴、小提琴演奏。她的青少年时光便是在偷听哥哥的唱片收藏，以及和学校里的古典乐团一起巡回全英演出中度过的。16岁时，她深深爱上了Ella Fitzgerald的音乐，而这样的热情令蒂朵从一个爱乐者转变成一个参与者。当时她白天从事创作出版工作，晚上开始和许多乐队在伦敦附近演唱。
接下来的两年中，蒂朵和无信念一起前往数十个国家巡回演出，经历了与以往身为古典乐团一员截然不同的日子。而每当蒂朵托着疲惫却亢奋的身心回到伦敦时，她便会着手为自己的创作录制一些试听带。
Arista唱片在1997年初听到了这些试听带，并安排蒂朵在伦敦的Dorchester饭店与总裁克利夫戴维斯见面，过去戴维斯曾经成功打造惠妮休斯敦、唐妮布蕾丝顿等流行乐坛天后。这次的会面相当成功，蒂朵在为戴维斯献唱时，这位乐坛巨擘甚至还忍不住为她和声。于是蒂朵开始展开了首张个人专辑『No Angel』的录制。
Dido，一个前途无量的女孩，正在用她的才华征服着全世界的歌迷。