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Moby
From underground electronica producer and punk rock activist to blues-sampling,
chart-topping pop star, Moby's career is known for being varied. A New York
native, he was born in Harlem as Richard Melville Hall on 11 September 1965. He
began playing guitar in punk bands in the late 1980s and received his big break
as an electronica producer when his Twin Peaks-sampling song "Go" hit the Top 10
in the UK. His 1992 debut album, Moby, established both his club credentials and
his alias, and he returned in 1996 with the snarling protest punk record Animal
Rights. It was 1998's Play t...
