Moby who was born Richard Melville Hall on November 11, 1965 in Harlem New York is one of music’s most prolific singer/songwriters. In addition to being a singer and song writer he is also a DJ and talented multi-instrumentalist as well. At nine years old Moby was already studying classical guitar and music theory, and eventually tackled piano, keyboards, bass guitar, and drums.
Moby has also played in a variety of bands such as the hardcore punk band Vatican Commandos. He has also performed with other bands like AWOL, Caeli Seoul, and Gin Train. In addition to the many different bands he has performed with he has also released music under the names Voodoo Child, and Schaumgummi. Moby also has eight top forty singles in the UK to his credit and has sold gold and platinum albums in more than 30 countries including the US.
Yet with all of this success Moby is not a name you would typically associate with a mainstream artist and you certainly cannot pigeonhole him into any one genre of music. However we hear his music almost everyday in music, video, movie, and TV outlets and often we may not even know it. Moby writes music and scores for everything from TV commercials to feature length films and he has made his pile doing it too.
Some of his most notable work in film includes "Bring Sally Up"/"Flower" from Gone In sixty Seconds, "Extreme Ways" from the Bourne trilogy, and "One Of These Mornings" from Miami Vice featuring Patti La Belle. He has also written commercial tunes for Volkswagen. Moby has done all of this and still maintains an active performance schedule, which includes playing at shows called degenerates around NYC.
Moby is also known for his activist stance on issues such as ecology and global warming. He owns a vegan restaurant in New York known as “Teany”. He has also been involved with the animal rights group called PETA. (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) whatever the cause that is important to him he has proven to support them both vocally and financially.
Whether you agree with his political and world views or not he is no doubt an awesome artist as well as a global figure. If you guys have anything like Limewire, Napster, or Kazaa then I highly recommend that you download some of his stuff and give him a listen, I really don’t think that you will be disappointed I wasn’t. I have tons of music by this guy and I constantly play it all the time.
That’s all for Simple Man Music and I hope you enjoy the video. I promise you there will be much more to come. Have a wonderful day and I will see you all again soon CIAO4NOW!!!!!
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Moby is definitely an excellent musician. It's incredible that so many people know his music, but don't really know much about the man behind the music. Truly his career is understated in many ways, but perhaps that is what has made him so successful. I myself really enjoy a lot of his music, and have been shocked to find out how many tunes I really like are actually by Moby! Great post!!!
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