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Moby
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Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United States and the United Kingdom".
Moby is an American musician and songwriter who became a major figure in bringing dance music to mainstream audiences in the early 1990s, selling 20 million records worldwide. Beyond his music career, he is also known as an animal rights activist.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1965-09-11
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Southside
- Teany book
- Gristle
- Liquid Sky
- Little Pine Cookbook
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Film & TV
Acting · New York, New York, U.S.A.
Known by his stage name Moby, Richard Melville Hall, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, DJ and photographer. He is well known for his electronic music and animal rights activism. Moby has sold over 20 million albums worldwide, and is considered one of the most important contributor to dance music in the early 1990s. His electronic dance music work, which experimented with techno,…
Known for
- Something Divine — Self2026
- DIY: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Punk — Self2025
- Moby: 25 Years of Play - Sportpaleis Antwerp2024
- Moby - PLAY 25 - Sportpaleis d'Anvers - ARTE Concert — Self2024
- Confluence — Self2024
- Punk Rock Vegan Movie — Self/The Devil2023
- Moby: Reprise — Moby2021
- Moby Doc — Self2021
- All the Streets Are Silent: The Convergence of Hip Hop and Skateboarding (1987-1997) — Self2021
- Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage — Self2021
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1965
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- Listeners
- 3,675,441
- Total plays
- 140,092,408
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Richard Melville Hall (born 11 September 1965), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter and animal rights activist. He has sold approximately 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic has described him as among the most significant figures in early 1990s dance music, noting his role in bringing the genre to a wider mainstream audience in both the United States and the United Kingdom. After learning guitar and piano at the age of nine <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mob
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Locating Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
· 2013 · cited 229x
- Combined oral contraceptive use is associated with both improvement and worsening of mood in the different phases of the treatment cycle—A double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized trial
· 2017 · cited 139x
- Oral contraceptive use changes brain activity and mood in women with previous negative affect on the pill—A double-blinded, placebo-controlled randomized trial of a levonorgestrel-containing combined oral contraceptive
· 2013 · cited 124x
- Dental Pulp Stem Cell-Derived Conditioned Medium: An Attractive Alternative for Regenerative Therapy
· 2019 · cited 93x
- Risk factors for complications and revision surgery after anatomic and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty
· 2021 · cited 84x
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Quotes
- “Could you look at animal in the eyes and say to it "my appetite is more important than your suffering"? I hope not.”
- “a long time ago only kings had rights. then rights were extended to property-owning white men. then all men. then wymyn [sic]. then children. then the mentally retarded. now we're agonizing over the extension of basic rights to homosexuals and animals. we need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights.”
- “Better a loving single parent family than a 'conventional' family wherein the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.”
- “Ozzy Osbourne used to snort ants. Led Zeppelin had sex with hookers on private planes. And I start an on-tour book club. Because one can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book.”
- “Why can't a Democrat get fired up about protecting the environment and enacting gun control legislation just as right wing republicans get fired up about making sure that children have access to assault weapons and banning 'The catcher in the rye' and 'Harry Potter'?”
- “It will be interesting to see what the long term fruits of our national apathy will be, 'cos so far they've been pretty foul.”
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Key facts
- Musical artist.image
- Moby 12 17 2018 -16 (31743191557).jpg
- Musical artist.alt
- Moby playing his guitar in 2018
- Musical artist.caption
- Moby performing in 2018
- Musical artist.birth_place
- New York City, U.S.
- Musical artist.birth_name
- Richard Melville Hall
- Musical artist.years_active
- 1983–present
- Person.embed
- yes
- Person.signature
- Signature of Moby.svg
- Person.signature_size
- 100px
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- moby.com
- Image
- Moby 12 17 2018 -16 (31743191557).jpg
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- Commons category
- Moby
- date of birth
- 1965-09-11
- birth name
- Richard Melville Hall
- start of work period
- 1978-00-00
- name in native language
- Richard M. Hall
- pseudonym
- Woodoo Child
- Commons Creator page
- Moby
- social media followers
- 931000
- P12749
- Červený Kostelec
Sources (9)
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Works in European collections
3 objects attributed to Moby, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Article
25 sectionsContents
- Early life and influences
- Career
- 1989–1993: Signing with Instinct, "Go", and breakthrough
- 1993–1998: Signing with Elektra, ''Everything Is Wrong'', and ''Animal Rights''
- 1999–2004: ''Play'', worldwide success, and ''18''
- 2004–2010: ''Hotel'', ''Last Night'', and ''Wait for Me''
- 2010–2015: ''Destroyed'' and ''Innocents''
- 2016–present: Recent albums and documentary
- Collaborations
- TV/Film work
- Business ventures
- Personal life
- Veganism and animal rights
- Drug use
- Spirituality and faith
- Charity
- Photography
- Books
- Politics
- Discography
- Awards
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United States and the United Kingdom".
After taking up guitar and piano at the age of nine, he played in several underground punk rock bands through the 1980s (Vatican Commandos, Flipper, Ultra Vivid Scene) before turning to electronic dance music. In 1989, he moved to New York City and became a prolific figure as a DJ, producer, and remixer. His 1991 single "Go" was his mainstream breakthrough, especially in Europe, where it peaked within the top ten of the charts in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Between 1992 and 1997 he scored eight top ten hits on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart including "Move (You Make Me Feel So Good)", "Feeling So Real", and "James Bond Theme (Moby Re-Version)". Throughout the decade he also produced music under various pseudonyms, released the critically acclaimed Everything Is Wrong (1995). His punk-oriented album Animal Rights (1996) alienated much of his fan base.