Thanks to Sloane for sending this in!<\/p>\n
\nSpeed Queen – British songstress Dido- a cross between Sarah McLachlan and
\nSinead O’Connor- races toward pop stardom<\/strong><\/p>\nFrom: Elle, March 1999<\/p>\n
However famous British singer-songwriter Dido becomes (and, considering the beauty of her forthcoming debut album, No Angel, stardom may be around the bend) she’ll never demand a chauffeur.\ufffd “I love driving through London,” the twenty-eight-year-old trills as she guns her red Ford Fiesta, eyes glued to a windshield blurry with reflected street lights.\ufffd We\ufffdre fast approaching Westway, \ufffdan inspiring stretch of urban decay\ufffd that connects Dido\ufffds flat to her second home, Swanyard recording studios in Islington.\ufffd \ufffdI have my bestideas at seventy miles per hour,\ufffd she says.\ufffd \ufffdYou zoom past a stranger and imagine a whole life.\ufffd And,\ufffd she adds with a guilty smirk, the gas pedal floored beneath her New Balance sneaker, \ufffdyou can see into people\ufffds houses!\ufffd Voyeuristic kicks notwithstanding, music offers bigger thrills for the classically trained performer (piano, violin, recorder), whose career began when she entered London\ufffds Guild Hall School of Music and Drama at age six: \ufffdTen years of influence, whether I like it or not,\ufffd Dido says.\ufffd \ufffdThat\ufffds the appeal of singing: I haven\ufffdt had it taught out of me.\ufffd\ufffd She found her voice during an audition for a student opera at Westminster (as in Abbey, where she sang in the choir).\ufffd \ufffdA horribly posh private school.\ufffd There were 800 boys and, like, sixty girls,\ufffd she recalls.\ufffd \ufffdIt was an amazing boyfest\ufffdand the demise of my education.\ufffd I thought, Why am I practicing in my
\nroom\ufffdalone\ufffdfor five hours every night when I could be\ufffd?\ufffd This hormone-induced musical hiatus lasted beyond graduation, as Dido decided to follow in the footsteps of her book publisher father.\ufffd \ufffdTrashy fiction was my specialty,\ufffd she says.\ufffd She quit her job three years ago to sing with Faithless, her brother Rollo\ufffds band; the resulting CD, Reverence,
\nwent on to sell five million copies.\ufffd Dido\ufffds subtly stunning voice\ufffdlike her music, it evokes Sarah McLachlan and Sinead O\ufffdConnor\ufffdcaught the ear of Arista Records president Clive Davis, who counts McLachlan, Whitney Houston, and Janis Joplin among his discoveries.\ufffd Dido now channels her literary ambitions into crafting lyrics.\ufffd (\ufffdI\ufffdm interested in the human side of love, the mistakes we make in relationships,\ufffd she says.\ufffd \ufffdI write about small moments\ufffdthat one night, that one look\ufffdto get across a universal point.\ufffd)She even co-produced the songs on No Angel, some under the guidance of Rollo, others with Madonna collaborator Rick Nowles. Her destiny certainly looks brighter than that of her mythical namesake, a Carthage queen whose broken heart drove her to suicide.\ufffd \ufffdShe threw herself on a fire. A very passionate woman\ufffdI relate to that,\ufffd Dido acknowledges
\nwhile scowling in the rearview mirror at a man who foolishly tried to cut
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