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Moby
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 a…
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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, house, breakbeat, downtempo electronica,, and spoke-word layering helped introduce and popularize dance music in both the UK and America with his fifth studio album, Play. Originally released in mid-1999, the album sold 6,000 copies in its first week, and it re-entered the charts in early 2000 and became an unexpected hit, producing eight singles and selling over 10 million copies worldwide. Moby followed the album with 18 in 2002, to much success, selling over 5 million copies worldwide. His work spans eleven complete albums, while editing, producing, performing and remixing music for acts such as Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Daft Punk, Britney Spears, New Order, Public Enemy, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, Soundgarden, and others. Moby is considered by some to be a renaissance man, creating or supporting restaurants, artist collectives, animal activism groups, while writing and photographing for articles and books throughout his career. He is an advocate for network neutrality, along with other political causes such as art education and anti-violence campaigns.
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2026
Eternal Return
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2026
The Incomer
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2026
Jim Queen and the Quest for Chloroqueer
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2026
Something Divine
Movie Self
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2025
Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story
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2025
Three steps before dawn
Movie Music
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2025
DIY: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Punk
Movie Self
- 2024
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2024
Confluence
TV show Self
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2023
Rowdy Girl
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Punk Rock Vegan Movie
Movie Self/The Devil
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2022
The Porn Radio Show
Movie Music
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2022
Way Out West
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2022
Zanni (Proof of Concept)
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2022
Found Emulsion
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2022
Wild
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2021
Moby: Reprise
Movie Moby
- 2021
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2021
Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage
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2021
Moby Doc
Movie Self
- 2021
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2020
Endgame 2050
Movie Self
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2020
Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert
Movie Self
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2019
Countdown to Year Zero
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2019
#Powerplant
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2018
Once in a Lifetime Sessions with Moby
Movie Self
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2018
AWGE DVD: Volume 3
Movie Self
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2018
Cholet. The work of Freddy Mammani
Movie Music
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2017
Land of Hope and Glory
Movie Music
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2017
Everybody Has an Andy Dick Story
Movie Self
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2017
The Public Image Is Rotten
Movie Himself
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2017
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web
Movie Self
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2017
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
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2016
David Blaine: Beyond Magic
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2016
Soundbreaking
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2016
A Little of Your Time with Quinn Marcus
TV show Himself
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2016
Intruder
Movie Vincent
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2016
Vegan: Everyday Stories
Movie Self
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2016
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
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