The singer was nicknamed Dido after the Queen of Carthage in
Virgil's
Aeneid. The name on her birth certificate is
Florian Cloud De Bounevialle Armstrong. She said a in recent interview in
The Observer, "Florian is a German man's name. That's just mean."
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