Dido (singer) name or nickname. As a child, she had to deal with her birth name's ambiguous and unusual nature, which led to her being bullied and even to her pretending to have an ordinary name. As she explains: The name "Dido" derives from the mythical Queen of Carthage. Dido was educated at Thornhill Primary School in Islington, Dallington School, City of London Girls' and Westminster School where she was taught by the contemporary musician and Head of Academic Music, Sinan Savaskan. After she stole a recorder from school at the age of five, her parents enrolled her at the Guildhall School
Dido flip on stage as "". However, in September 2007, the "Daily Telegraph" speculated as to whether "music's own Bridget Jones ... has, like her trademark boot-cut jeans and eponymous Dido-flip hair, fallen out of fashion". The flip was sported for a time by Chelsea Clinton, daughter of the former US President Bill Clinton, at the time of Dido's rise to fame. The Dido flip was not discernible on the cover of the artist's first album, "No Angel" (1999), on which her hair was combed back, and by the time of "Life for Rent", her hair was longer. It could, however, be