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Singer Dido gives birth to a son

Singer Dido performs during the Live 8 Concert in Hyde Park in London, England July 2, 2005. The concert, held simultaneously in many cities around the world including Paris, Berlin, Philadelphia and Rome, is intended to call attention to world poverty ahead of next week's G8 meeting in Scotland. (UPI Photo/David Silpa)

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Published: Dec. 26, 2011 at 9:22 AM

LONDON, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- British singer Dido confirmed during the Christmas holiday she gave birth to her first child, a son, in July at a London hospital.

The Daily Mail said the 40-year-old recording star and her husband, writer and director Rohan Gavin, named their baby Stanley.

The newspaper did not say what took the couple so long to announce the birth of their son.

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