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Richard Melville Hall was born September 11, 1965, in the Manhattan, New York City, in the Harlem neighborhood to Elizabeth McBride (née Warner) and James Frederick Hall. His mother was a medical secretary and his father a professor of chemistry. The nickname Moby was assigned by his father, and was a reference to the book "Moby-Dick". Moby claims that Herman Melville, the author of "Moby-Dick" is his Great-Great-Great-Uncle. Moby's father died in a car accident when he was two years old after which his mother moved them first to San Francisco in 1969, and then between the Connecticut towns of Darien and Stratford.

At the age of nine, Moby began to play classical guitar and piano and then studied jazz, music theory, and percussion. In 1983, he joined the punk band the Vatican Commandos as a guitarist. Moby formed AWOL, known as a post punk group, and released a self-titled EP where he is credited as Moby Hall. Moby studied philosophy at the University of Connecticut and began to move from classical instruments toward electronic music, starting as a DJ for the college radio station WHUS. He transferred to State University of New York at Purchase, continuing to study philosophy and gaining interest in photography, but dropped out of college completely to pursue a DJ career.

In addition to music, Moby also started "Little Idiot Collective", a combination clothing store, comics store, and animation studio, a raw and vegan restaurant called "TeaNY" and his last venture, Little Pine, is a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles from which all profits are donated to animal welfare causes.

Today, Moby is known as an electronic music pioneer, vegan, and activist championing causes to bring awareness to animal welfare and climate change.

(7/11/00) Album: &quot;1993-1998 Songs&quot;

(2/12/96) Album: &quot;Animal Rights&quot;

(8/26/97) Album &quot;I Like to Score&quot;

(3/14/95) Album: &quot;Everything is Wrong&quot; (Elektra Records)

(4/28/93) Album: &quot;Early Underground&quot;

(2001) TV commercial: Best Buy electronic stores

The song &quot;Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?&quot; from the album &quot;Play&quot; was featured in the <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0265086/?ref_=nmwrk">Black Hawk Down (2001)</a> theatrical trailer.

(2006) CD: &quot;Go: The Very Best of Moby&quot; (V2)

(2009) CD: &quot;Wait for Me&quot; (Mute Records)

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