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) College of Music (RCM) in London. Since 2011, he has been the Artistic and Music Director of the UK National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO). He directs the RCM Swing Band and the RCM Big Band. Armstrong was nominated in the best trumpet category of the 2007 Ronnie Scott Jazz Awards. He was also a winner of the BBC Big Band Competition arranging prize. Mark Armstrong lives in London. He is married to the conductor Elinor Corp and they have two children. Mark Armstrong (musician) Mark Armstrong is a British jazz trumpeter, musical director, composer, arranger, and educator. Armstrong was born