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Also known as Richard Melville Hall, Voodoo Child, Barracuda, Brainstorm, Schaumgummi, Pippy Baliunas, UHF, Elizabeth McBride

американский певец, диджей и композитор

AI overview

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
ambientambient technoamericandowntempoelectronicelectronica

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
3,675,441
Total plays
140,092,408

Tags

electronicambientchilloutalternativeelectronica

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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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

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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
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yes
Person.signature
Signature of Moby.svg
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100px

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Family name
Hall
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Harlem
Occupation
cinematographer
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
American English
Religion
Christianity
Instrument
drum kit
Record label
Mute Records
Discography
Moby discography
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
topic's main category
Category:Moby
lifestyle
veganism
birth name
Richard Melville Hall
start of work period
1978-00-00
name in native language
Richard M. Hall
pseudonym
Woodoo Child
different from
Richard Hall
significant person
Adam Schiff
sexual orientation
heterosexuality
Commons Creator page
Moby
social media followers
931000
topic has template
Template:Moby
Sources (9)

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Works in European collections

3 objects attributed to Моби, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Article · Русский

Ри́чард Ме́лвилл Холл (англ. Richard Melville Hall; более известный под псевдонимом Мо́би (Moby); род. 11 сентября 1965, Гарлем, Нью-Йорк) — американский музыкант, певец, композитор и мультиинструменталист, работающий в различных жанрах — от электроники до поп-музыки, рока и панка. Является сольным артистом, большую часть студийных записей делает сам, а на концертах музыканта сопровождает его рок-группа. Моби играет на клавишных, гитаре, бас-гитаре и ударной установке. В ранние годы играл в хардкор-панк-группе The Vatican Commandos, но в 1989 году сменил панк на электронную музыку. Первый альбом — в стиле техно — выпустил в 1992 году (Moby). Среди его известных песен: «Extreme Ways» (получила широкую популярность после использования в фильме «Идентификация Борна»), «Go», «Porcelain», «Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?», «Natural Blues», «Lift Me Up». Также выпускал альбомы под псевдонимами Voodoo Child, Schaumgummi, Barracuda, UHF, The Brotherhood, DJ Cake, Lopez и Brainstorm/Mindstorm. В общей сложности по всему миру продано около 20 миллионов экземпляров его альбомов, синглов и сборников.

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