Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O'Malley Armstrong, known as Dido, is an English singer and songwriter born on 25 December 1971. She rose to international prominence with her 1999 debut album No Angel, featuring the hit singles Here with Me and Thank You. The album sold over 21 million copies worldwide and won multiple awards, including two Brit Awards and an MTV Europe Music Award. The song Thank You was famously sampled in Eminem's track Stan. Her follow-up album, Life for Rent, released in 2003, continued her chart success with songs like White Flag. Both of her first two albums are among the UK's best-selling albums of the 2000s. Dido joined other British and Irish artists for the 2004 Band Aid 20 charity single Do They Know It's Christmas. After her critically acclaimed third album Safe Trip Home in 2008, Dido collaborated with A. R. Rahman on If I Rise, earning an Academy Award nomination. She returned in 2013 with Girl Who Got Away and later released Still on My Mind in 2019, marking her first tour in 15 years. That same year, she received the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Song Collection. In 2020, Dido released The Last Summer (Deluxe Edition) with her brother Rollo Armstrong. She remains recognized for her distinctive voice and influence on pop music.