Moby was born Richard Melville Hall. Since Herman Melville, the author of the novel Moby Dick (the white whale) is somewhere very far away from family Richard, he received an early age nicknamed Moby. While Moby is known for its dance productions, he also has a history in the punk world, he made it clear with his guitar album Animal Rights (1996). Moby, incidentally fanatical vegan and Christian,
… began in the eighties as a DJ working in New York clubs and went himself producing dance. His first big hit was Go, a dance adaptation of a theme from the TV series Twin Peaks. The song was found on his debut album Moby (1992). He then spent several more albums, but the real success came with Play (1999), which Moby old recordings of blues and gospel songs combined with downtempo trance beats and ambient. The album was a huge hit, not least because he sold to advertisers numbers worldwide, making his music really was heard everywhere. In 2002 he was 18, largely based on the same formula as Play. At Hotel (2005) Moby allows the successful combination of soul and gospel samples with downtempo beats loose and he himself singing and guitar playing to hear.more
