Moby consists of Richard Melville.
Moby (born Richard Melville Hall on September 11, 1965 in Harlem, New York City) is an American electronic musician. Moby takes his performing name from his relative Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick.
Arguably, he is most famous among his peers for the track "Go," a progressive track using the string line from "Laura Palmer's Theme" from the TV drama Twin Peaks. Moby is also well known for singles like " Porcelain", " South Side" with Gwen Stefani, " We Are All Made of Stars" and "Lift Me Up". Moby has released singles and albums under the names Voodoo Child, Barracuda, UHF, The Brotherhood, DJ Cake, Lopez, and Brainstorm/Mindstorm.
Several of his songs have also found their way into major motion pictures and commercials.
The ambient piece "God Moving Over the Face of the Waters," was featured in: The 1995 motion picture Heat The 1996 Rover 400 car commercial The trailer for the 2005 movie Syriana The 2006 Apple commercial for the Intel-based line of iMac PC's.
"Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?" was used in: The climax of the documentary film Peaceable Kingdom The trailer for the 2001 movie Black Hawk Down.
"Extreme Ways" was featured in: the end of the 2002 movie The Bourne Identity and its sequel, the 2004 movie The Bourne Supremacy.
Indeed, in 1997 Moby released a compilation of tracks used in and inspired by the cinema called I Like to Score. His music was also used to great effect in Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday.
Moby plays keyboard, guitar, and bass guitar, and expresses mild irritation at the assumption that everything on his newer albums is a sample. He used to be in a punk band called the Vatican Commandos, but abandoned punk in 1989 for electronic music.
