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| Singer Dido |
However, the proficient singer has opted to call her newborn Stanley - a bizarre alternative considering the morbid lyrics of her No1 hit with Eminem.
The song, released in 2000, focuses on a fictitious fan, named Stan, who bombards the US rapper with letters within the hope he can write back.
However when he fails to receive a reply from his hero, Stan seals his fate by killing his girlfriend and their unborn kid, before committing suicide.
Yet, during a cruel twist, Eminem will write back apologising for being too busy - by which era devoted fan Stan is already dead.
Dido – whose full name is Dido Florian Cloud de Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong – gave birth to her son Stanley in July this year at the Portland Hospital in central London.
Baby Stanley is her 1st kid with husband Rohan Gavin, a author who additionally directed a pop promo for her 2 years ago.
The couple are believed to own married quietly last year and currently live in North London.
Miss Armstrong’s 2001 debut album No Angels, that featured the singles thanks and Here With Me, is one in every of the largest selling albums ever by a British feminine, selling quite twenty one million copies worldwide.
It secured her 2 Brit Awards in 2002 for Best feminine and Best Album.
The follow-up Life For Rent, released in 2003, then confirmed her superstardom with sales of quite twelve million and 2 additional Brit Awards.
Her last album Safe Trip Home came out in 2008. However, it didn't relish an equivalent industrial success however saw her nominated for an Academy Award for her song If I Rise from the album.
The star had been because of perform the song at the Oscars earlier this year, before cancelling the looks when she observed she was pregnant.
She wrote at the time: ‘Hello everybody, It’s been a month of wonderful news on behalf of me and currently I even have some additional to share.
‘Me and my husband Rohan predict a baby and we’re beyond happy and excited concerning it.
‘So as a number of you already apprehend, I won’t be ready to travel to LA for the Oscars ceremony to perform If I Rise.
Obviously I’m very gutted concerning not being there – progressing to the Oscars has literally been a dream of mine since i used to be concerning 9.'
She said she had embraced her pregnancy, adding: ‘There’s a true calmness concerning it that i believe is actually nice. Your choices are form of created for you. you only have this priority that's unchangeable and that i assume that’s an excellent calmness that comes from that.’
Safe Trip Home additionally featured the song Northern Skies. In 2009, Mr Gavin then directed a short-film to travel with the song.
Since her industrial peak, Miss Armstrong has had to agitate personal upheaval.
In 2003, she separated from fiancé Bob Page, a lawyer and her partner of seven years, whom she had credited as being the inspiration for her work.
Then, in 2006, she had to face the death of her father William, the previous head of publishing house Sidgwick & Jackson.
She dropped all work commitments as her father’s health deteriorated, progressing to see him in hospital twice daily and spending time along with her mother, Clare, and older brother Rollo, a member of dance trio Faithless.
The singer – who is estimated to be value quite £28million - had an uncommon childhood, growing up in Islington during a house filled with books with no tv and no guests.
She attended Westminster college before progressing to the Guildhall college of Music and Drama.
Apart from caring for her son, Miss Armstrong said she was currently acting on a replacement album.
