Moby

Moby is the stage name of Richard Melville Hall (born 1965), an American musician and producer known for blending electronic music with blues, gospel, and ambient influences. He emerged in the early 1990s with a string of albums, including Moby (1992), Everything Is Wrong (1995), and the breakthrough Play (1999). Play achieved international commercial success and helped popularize a more accessible form of electronic music, featuring samples and collaborations that drew on blues and soul traditions. The album spawned hit singles such as Porcelain and Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?, and has sold many millions of copies worldwide.

In subsequent years, Moby released Wait for Me (2009), Destroyed (2011), and other projects that continued his practice of combining electronic production with organic vocal samples and live instrumentation. He has also contributed to film scores and soundtracks, and his work has been a consistent presence in electronic and alternative music circles.

Besides his music career, the name Moby is associated with other uses. In technology, Moby refers to the Moby Project, an open-source framework associated with the Docker platform that provides components and guidelines for building container-based software. Despite these other uses, Moby is most widely recognized as the stage name of the American musician.