Dario G

Dario G

Dario G are an English dance music group from Crewe, United Kingdom, active from 1996 to 2024. The group’s line-up includes Stephen Spencer, Paul Spencer and Scott Rosser, and its early formation also includes vocalist Ingfrid Straumstøyl. Their music sits in dance, electronic, euro house and house, with associations in the broader trance and progressive house scene.

Career

The group forms in Cheshire, England, and comes to prominence in the late 1990s with the single “Sunchyme”. The track reaches number two in the United Kingdom, Scotland, Denmark and Switzerland, number one on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, and also tops the US Dance Club Songs chart and the Hungarian chart. Dario G then release their debut album, Sunmachine, in 1998, followed by the singles “Carnaval de Paris” and “Sunmachine”.

After Sunmachine, Rosser and Stephen Spencer leave the group to work on other projects, while Paul Spencer continues to record and perform under the Dario G name. In 2000 the group records “Voices”, which appears on the soundtrack to the film The Beach. That same year, “Dream to Me” appears as the lead single from the second studio album, In Full Colour, with Straumstøyl on lead vocals. The single reaches number one in Romania, number four in Scotland, and number nine in both the United Kingdom and Germany.

Later work

Dario G also release the studio album Hola in 2020. Paul Spencer continues as Dario G until his death in 2024.