She founded her own record label and releases her music independently, enjoying large success with her albums in her home country as well as critical acclaim across Europe.

Tina's father, who owned a high-end Hi-Fi stereo system in their basement, introduced her to music while she was still quite young.

At the age of 20 she got a part in the slightly erotic TV-show Karrusel, where she played opposite the 41-year-old Peter Steen and Michael Falch.

The band Tina Dickow and Sheriff was formed in 1998, and later that year the single "Your Waste of Time" was released.

After all this success, quite a lot of correspondences with different major record labels began, and the rest of 1999 was spent in endless negotiations without results.

They were paired with American singer Sandy Dillon and played concerts in Vega, Copenhagen, and Norway and Sweden.

Several conversations with established record labels followed after the success with "Your Waste of Time", but Tina Dico was unhappy with the way they intended to market her.

In 2001, Tina Dico also teamed up with her current manager, Jonathan Morley, at the Spot (music festival) in Aarhus.

In the beginning of 2002, Tina Dico moved to England in an attempt to escape the cosy atmosphere in Denmark.

Thanks to her contract with Jonathan Morley, she had the opportunity to step into the English music community, which led to a collaboration with Australian singer Holly Valance on the song "Send My Best" in 2005.

Notes was written while Tina lived in Richmond and later on Tenter Ground near Brick Lane in London.

In 2004 Tina released an EP named Far and later that year she did a Danish version of the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" with Steffen Brandt.

Recording sessions for her international debut album In the Red began at the end of 2004 with producer Chris Potter.

The legal rights to the songs were handed over to Dico, and the album was released in cooperation with the Danish company A:Larm in June 2005.

The jury said this of Dico's effort: "Courage, self-esteem and talent is required if you want to be yourself and perform your own songs – without over-styled fuss.

In February 2007 Dico recorded the John Lennon song "Working Class Hero" as part of Amnesty International's Global campaign "Make Some Noise."

She received it for "having the courage to look the contradictory and difficult parts of existence in the eyes, and for the ability to express it in a very special, life-affirming fashion that many can identify themselves with."

A week after she won the cultural award, the EP collection A Beginning, A Detour, An Open Ending (also known as "The Trilogy") was released.

Through the website www.pledgemusic.com, a site that raises money for charity, she made it possible for fans to access the album before the general release.

Large parts of The Road to Gävle were written in early 2009 on her three-month stay in Los Angeles and New York.

Later she was in Bristol to record the song "The Storm That Brought You To Me" for the soundtrack to the blockbuster Clash of the Titans with Massive Attack producer Neil Davidge.

In December 2014 Dico released a six-song digital-only EP entitled En Håndfuld Danske (A Handful of Danish), composed of Danish-language cover versions of other artists’ songs.

The songs were chosen by fans in a poll announced in early October 2014 and were first made available free on Spotify on 1 December 2014.