Benoit & Sergio

Benoit & Sergio
Sergio (left) and Benoit (right) perform at the Piknic Électronik in Montreal on 3 June 2012
Background information
Origin	Washington, D.C.
Genres	Dance pop House
Years active	2009–present
Labels	Thesongsays Spectral Sound Visionquest DFA Records Double Standard Records Hot Creations Culprit Leftroom Limited Soul Clap Records
Members	Benoit Simon, Benjamin "Sergio" Myers

Benoit & Sergio are a dance pop and house music duo composed of Benoit Simon and Benjamin "Sergio" Myers and based out of Washington, D.C. and Berlin. Their music has been described as an intelligent and often melancholy mix of pop and electronic music intended for dance but outside the mainstream of electronic dance music. They describe their sound as "dance pop with a slightly melancholy feel to it".

Benoit Simon was born and raised in Paris. From an early age, he showed an interest in the electronics, especially as they related to sound. As a youth, he created music on an Atari home computer with his childhood friend and made himself a Vocoder. He also played some guitar. Inspired by the emerging genre of French house, and by Daft Punk in particular, Simon began making electronic music in earnest in 1995. For his day job, he worked in voice recognition and speech synthesis, work that led him to move to Boston in 2002.

Benjamin "Sergio" Myers is from the small town of Fairfield, Iowa, the son of a professor. As a youth, he played rock guitar, but never wrote music or joined a band. He attended the University of Chicago as an undergraduate and then began working towards a PhD in Renaissance literature at Johns Hopkins. After a DJ friend introduced him to the electronic music scene in Berlin one summer, he was inspired to begin making electronic music. As his interests became increasingly focused on music, he quit graduate school to devote more time to it. Moving to Washington, D.C., he taught English at St. Albans School while continuing to focus on his music. During this time, he released several tracks on Wolf + Lamb Records under the name Sergio Giorgini, which he later referred to as "very sporadic, rudimentary things."