Dido's REAL name revealed as noughties pop celebrates anniversary of her iconic debut album
Throughout her career, she was the recipient of several awards, including two Brit Awards and the MTV Europe Music Award for Best New Act.
Although she disappeared from the limelight in the late 2000s, the now 53-year-old has continued to make music, with a comeback five years ago.
However, while many of us know her as Dido, most don't know her name in full whlch is a rather lenghy one.
He real name is Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong.
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By the end of 2003, Dido was the world's best-selling female artist with a string of hits, including White Flag and Life For Rent.
She toured the globe non-stop before dramatically putting the brakes on her career. to look after her father who was sick.
'The last big show I did was Live 8 (in 2005) and at that point, I'd been going hard at it for over six years and thought I'd take a little bit of time off.
'So I was just on a break. For 15 years.'
Explaining why she had taken a break from releasing music, Dido admitted she struggled to write good songs after welcoming her first child Stanley with husband Rohan Gavin in 2011.
She explained: 'After I had my son I definitely have a couple of years where most what I wrote wasn't very good.
'I actually knew it at the time, when I write songs there's always a bit conflicted, but then when I had a kid I thought ''I'm quite happy.''
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