Moby, — the American musician, and also the name of its group. Works in various genres — from electronic music to bottoms, fate and the punk. The pseudonym is borrowed from Herman Melvilla's product of "Mobi Dik" which author is necessary the musician the relative.

Among known songs of Mobi: «Go», «Porcelain», «Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?», «Natural Blues», «Lift Me Up». Also let out albums, being called Voodoo Child, Barracuda, UHF, The Brotherhood, DJ Cake, Lopez, and Brainstorm/Mindstorm.

Richard was born in New York, but the State of Connecticut grew in Deriene. When to it was two years, his father was lost in a car accident, and further the boy was brought up by mother, enough progressive woman encouraging creative bents of the son. In nine years the boy starts to take game lessons on a piano and a guitar. «Moby» Richard has received a nickname because the distant relative to it Herman Melvill Holl, the author «Mobi Dika» had. The teenager he played a guitar in various commands, since pank group The Vatican Commandos and finishing anarchical collective Flipper and with command ULTRA VIVID SCENE enough known in due time.

In the late eighties Richard has left to New York — one of the centers of arising house-culture — and has started to master di-dzhejskoe craft in local clubs, and also to create an own electronic material. In 1990-91 it debut singles on an independent label «Instinct» have been let out some.
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