Musical artist moby biography
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Richard Melville ingång (born September 11, ), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter, singer, producer, and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United States and the United Kingdom." After taking up guitar and piano at age nine, he played in several underground punk rock bands through the s before turning to electronic dance music. In , he moved to New York City and became a prolific figure as a DJ, producer, and remixer. His single "Go" was his mainstream breakthrough, especially in europe, where it peaked within the top ten of the charts in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Between and , he scored eight top 10 hits on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart including "Move (You Make Me Feel So Good)", "Feeling So Real", and "Ja
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Moby
American musician (born )
For other uses, see Moby (disambiguation).
Musical artist
Richard Melville Hall (September 11, ), known professionally as Moby, is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, disc jockey, and animal rights activist. He has sold 20 million records worldwide. AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United States and the United Kingdom".[1]
After taking up guitar and piano at age nine, he played in several underground punk rock bands through the s before turning to electronic dance music. In , he moved to New York City and became a prolific figure as a DJ, producer and remixer. His single "Go" was his mainstream breakthrough, especially in Europe, where it peaked within the top ten of the charts in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Between and he scored eight top 10 hits on the Billboard Dance Club Songs cha
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“Reprise” is an opportunity for Moby to revisit the musical highlights of his life’s work in a completely new way. Together with Hungary’s Budapest Art Orchestra, he has re-envisioned some of his most recognizable rave classics and anthems. Some of the new versions are sparser, slower and more vulnerable, while others exploit the bombastic potential an orchestra can offer. Three decades into his career, “Reprise” is less of a Greatest Hits record and more of a chance to reflect on the way in which art can adapt over time to different settings and contexts.
30 years ago, Moby was an underground New York City DJ when he rose from obscurity with an electronic dance track called “Go.” His path from then until now has been tortuous and unconventional, full of dizzying peaks and dark night-of-the-soul troughs. But through it all, Moby has never stopped creating art from a place of curiosity, frustration, joy, and exploration. Despite having one of the longest and most idiosync