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Dido returns with her 3rd release 'Safe Trip Home' which is a warm and moving album from the London-born singer-songwriter with the cracked-crystal voice. From the success of her first releases, 'No Angel' and 'Life for Rent' we have to remember that Dido comes to us originally as a part-time back up singer who had no budget and no label. Her success helped to define a corner of the chill-out market and she found herself in 2001 as one of the planet's biggest selling releases. Although she disappeared from view, Dido took very little time off from music. However, rather than immediately starting to write new songs, she threw herself into playing, whether it be her music or others people's. "I wanted to take some time to become a better musician," she explains. "For the first two albums, any playing I'd done had been used purely for songwriting, which is very different from just playing for fun, like I had as a child. So I spent a lot of time just picking up instruments for playing's sake again. I loved it."
Dido had inadvertently set the tone for Safe Trip Home, a record whose smouldering, soulful songs were to eventually feature her playing guitar, piano, bells and the trusty old recorder she'd toured Europe with as a prodigious pupil of London's Guildhall School of Music. She's even responsible for some of the album's drums (most notably on the sumptuously melancholy Quiet Times). Dido relocated to Los Angeles where she connected with producer, Jon Brion (Fiona Apple, Kayne West, Rufus Wainwright, Eels) and was able to work with the likes of Citizen Cope, Mick Fleetwood and Brian Eno. 'Safe Trip Home' is a record of love and loss, strength and surrender, highs and lows. This week "Don't Believe In Love" hits #1 on the BZ Top 10 and when you hear the bassline and then Dido's voice you'll quickly remember how she is one of chill-out's royalty and we are happy she is back.
To read the full biography on the release and see a video for "Don't Believe In Love" visit Dido's website to 
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