Richard Melville Hall was born in New York City in 1965 and raised in San Francisco. He began performing as Moby when he moved back to New York City in 1989, releasing his breakthrough dance single “Go” in 1991. He is known for the albums “Everything is Wrong” and “Play”. An outspoken vegan, He claims he is the great-great-great-nephew of Herman Melville, hence the name “Moby”.
My earliest memory is crying into a kazoo when I was three years old. I was upset that my mom had cut me off from my favourite cereal (Kaboom), so I cried into my kazoo, while she laughed until she cried.
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