Moby

Person · Open Library

Born

1965-09-11

Works

14

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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 · Last.fm

Listeners

3,675,441

Total plays

140,092,408

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

1. Locating Electric Vehicle Charging Stations

   · 2013 · cited 231x

2. 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 148x

3. 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 126x

4. Dental Pulp Stem Cell-Derived Conditioned Medium: An Attractive Alternative for Regenerative Therapy

   · 2019 · cited 95x

5. Risk factors for complications and revision surgery after anatomic and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty

   · 2021 · cited 87x

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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

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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

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Person.signature

Signature of Moby.svg

Person.signature_size

100px

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