And her first album, No Angel, was a hit, featuring the dreamy “Here With Me,” which accentuated her warm, breathy singing style. recording artists, like Beth Orton, who were all the rage at the time. She was part of a group of ethereal, slightly folky and slightly electronic U.K. “Then Madonna came along and I wanted to be her.”Īrmstrong started recording under the name Dido, putting together demos in the mid-1990s. “I was a big hair, pastel-pink lipstick, proper Duran Duran fan,” she recalled. She dug folk music but also Wham! - after all, she came of age in the 1980s.

“I was that kid trying to write songs using the chords from Beethoven symphonies,” she’d say years later. Her father a book publisher and her mother a poet, she developed an interest in music as child. Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong grew up in a creative family.