Dido (singer) was born on Christmas Day, she also celebrates an "official birthday" on 25 June, following the example of Paddington Bear. Her mother, Clare (née Collins), is a poet of French ancestry, and her father, William O'Malley Armstrong (1938–2006), was an Irish publisher and former managing director of Sidgwick & Jackson. Her elder brother, Rowland Constantine O'Malley Armstrong, is better known as record producer Rollo, part of the British electronica trio Faithless. Despite their birth names, the pair were known from childhood by the names Dido and Rollo and Dido considers this as her real name, and not simply a stage
Mark Armstrong (musician) Mark Armstrong (musician) Mark Armstrong is a British jazz trumpeter, musical director, composer, arranger, and educator. Armstrong was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, northern England. He was brought up in Amersham and attended Dr Challoner's Grammar School. He studied then for a degree in music at the University of Oxford, when he played with the Oxford University Jazz Orchestra and helped to reform the Oxford University Big Band. He subsequently took a postgraduate course in jazz and studio music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Since 2008, Mark Armstrong has been Jazz Professor at the Royal