{"id":289302,"date":"2010-02-07T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T14:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papundits.wordpress.com\/?p=30946"},"modified":"2010-02-07T09:01:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T14:01:09","slug":"sunday-music-%e2%80%93-white-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/289302","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Music \u2013 White Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today\u2019s music video is \u2018White Flag\u2019 from Dido.<\/p>\n

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This video was posted to You Tube by isntitironicTOTP<\/a><\/p>\n

Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong goes by the name Dido thankfully, or maybe she would never have had a record played on radio. She is an English singer who had a white hot period in the early years of the 21st Century. She shot to Worldwide stardom in 1999 with her first album, but this is without doubt her biggest hit from her second album ‘Life For Rent’, released in 2003.<\/p>\n

Her career has been bigger outside the U.S. where she has only had moderate success. In all, she has however sold nearly 30 million albums, and has had a huge career in The UK, her Country of origin.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Blessed with a beautiful tone to her voice, it’s easy to see just why she has been so popular. She has not been prolific, only having released three albums in all over the 11 years she has been singing. However those albums have all been certified Platinum many times over, so when you do have a career like that, you can be selective about how often you do bring out new music. She has won numerous awards in her home Country and has been nominated twice for Grammy Awards, including one for this single.<\/p>\n

The name Dido itself\u00a0 has some history, as originally it was not part of her name. Her parents gave her the impressive sounding name minus the Dido part, and then, virtually from birth, they gave her the ‘nickname’ of Dido, which was the name of the Legendary Queen of Carthage, and was also a cause of her being bullied at school for having such an unusual name. She has since legally adopted that name as part of her full name.<\/p>\n

So, in effect, she has something other than a beautiful voice in common with Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O’Brien<\/a>, who used the better known name of Dusty Springfield.<\/p>\n

Filed under: Great Britain<\/a>, Music<\/a>, Video<\/a> Tagged: Dido<\/a>, Music<\/a>, Music Video<\/a>, Video<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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