Dido was five when she stole her
first recorder. This didn't lead to prison, but
rather to her entrance one year later to the
Guildhall School of Music in London. A bit of a
child prodigy, by the time she was 10 she played
piano, violin, and the aforementioned recorder.
Her teenage years were an interesting mixture of
stealing her brother's record collection (from The
Clash to Gregory Isaac's to Duran Duran) and touring
the UK with her classical music ensemble and then,
at 16, she finally fell in love... with Ella
Fitzgerald.
