Article: DIDO: THE VOICE OF AN 'ANGEL'.(L.A. Life)

Byline: Sandra Barrera Staff Writer

Up until recently, few people had heard of Dido.

Never mind that the 28-year-old British chanteuse's sugary sweet song ``Thank You'' off her uneventful 1999 album debut ``No Angel'' was featured in the 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow flick ``Sliding Doors.'' And forget about the fact that her single ``Here With Me'' is heard every week as the theme song to the WB's alien teen drama ``Roswell.''

All of that has helped her career, sure. But the reason people now know Dido is because rapper Eminem took such a liking to ``Thank You,'' he sampled a portion of her song in his hit about an obsessive fan who kills himself.

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