American musician, songwriter, and producer born Richard Melville Hall on September 11, 1965, in New York City. Distinguished by his eclectic electronic music drawing on house, ambient, breakbeat, and downtempo influences and frequent vegetarian/animal-rights advocacy.
Released over a dozen studio albums starting with Moby (1992). Commercial peak: Play (1999, a sleeper hit that eventually sold over 12 million copies worldwide, every track licensed for film/TV/advertising). Subsequent peaks: 18 (2002) and Hotel (2005). Released the autobiographical Porcelain (2016) and Then It Fell Apart (2019).