Massive Attack are a British music duo from Bristol, UK, that work alongside co-producers to assemble a collective of various favoured session musicians and guest vocalists with whom they make records and tour live. The duo are considered to be progenitors of a genre named trip hop. Originally they were three. DJ's Grantley "Grant" Marshall (Daddy G or "G"), Andrew "Andy" Vowles (Mushroom or "Mush") and painter-turned-MC Robert Del Naja (3D or "D") met as members of The Wild Bunch, one of the first homegrown soundsystems in Britain and a dominant and eclectic force on the 1980s Bristolian club scene. Starting out as a spin-off production trio in 1988, with independently-released song, "Any Love", sung by falsetto-voiced singer-songwriter Carlton McCarthy, they later signed to Circa Records, in 1990 - committing to deliver 6 studio albums and a "Best Of" compilation. Circa became a subsidiary of (and was later subsumed by) Virgin Records, which in turn was acquired by the, now Terra Firma-owned major, EMI.