What a great thrill it was to meet and greet the one and only Moby at the 2008 edition of Canadian Music Week in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Moby was a tad confused at the slight of me, mistaking me for some baffone he got into an argument with in Scotland. Moby (born Richard Melville Hall, September 11, 1965) is an American songwriter, musician and singer. He was born in Harlem, New York, and raised in Darien, Connecticut. After eight Top 40 techno singles in the UK in the 1990s, his biggest hit was his album Play, released in 1999, which sold 9 million copies worldwide.[1] He continues to record and release music today. His parents nicknamed him Moby soon after birth,[2] partly after the novel Moby-Dick, which was written by Herman Melville, his great-great-great-great uncle. He plays keyboard, guitar, bass guitar and drums. He has also released music under the names Voodoo Child, Barracuda, Brainstorm, UHF, The Brotherhood, DJ Cake, Lopez, Mindstorm, Schaumgummi[3], and Pippy Baliunas[4] He has received attention for his political, environmental and religious beliefs, which he has outlined in the liner notes of his albums. Studio albums Moby (Instinct 1992) Ambient (Instinct 1993) Everything Is Wrong (Mute 1995) Animal Rights (Mute 1996) Play (Mute 1999) #38 US (2x Platinum); #1 UK (5 Wks) Ww. 10.000.000 18 (Mute 2002) #4 US (Gold); #1 UK Hotel (Mute 2005) #28 US; #8 UK; #4 UWC Last Night (March 31, 2008) Compilations/other Instinct Dance (Instinct 1991) (as Moby/Barracuda/Brainstorm/Voodoo Child) Early Underground (Instinct 1993) Rare: The Collected B-Sides 1989-1993 (Instinct 1996) Everything Is Wrong -- DJ Mix Album (Mute 1996) The End of Everything (Mute 1996 (UK)/Elektra 1997 (US) (as Voodoo Child) I Like to Score (Mute 1997) Songs 1993-1998 (Elektra 2000) Play: The B Sides (Mute 2000) 18 B Sides + DVD (Mute 2003) Baby Monkey (V2 2004) (as Voodoo Child) Go - The Very Best of Moby (Mute 2006) #153 US; #23 UK Go - The Very Best of Moby: Remixed (Mute 2007) Underwater (free with limited edition Everything Is Wrong) Little Idiot (free with limited edition Animal Rights) hotel.ambient (free with limited edition Hotel) The Bioshock EP (free with limited edition BioShock) Hotel (iTunes Original) [edit] Videography Play: The DVD (2001) 18 B Sides + DVD (2003) Moby Presents: Alien Sex Party (2003) The Hotel Tour 2005 (2006) Go: The Very Best of Moby (2006) moby cmw canadian music week kayvon tv comedy techno play uk richard hall toronto House borat interview funny mute lol records moby electronic Techno Electronic Rock Downtempo House Electronic Music Ambient hilarious perez tom green ontario live show royal york hotel mistaken mistake scotland england uk backstage ambush behind the scenes moby

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2. Christine says:

   March 25, 2008 at 6:52 pm

   Moby’s “Play” is like the most amazing album I have ever heard

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   March 25, 2008 at 3:20 am

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4. Winston says:

   March 25, 2008 at 2:02 am

   LOL @ Moby thinking he seen you in Scotland, he should know a true Brit would never go to that god awful place. I can’t believe anybody still has Hartford Whaler memorabilia, LMAO.

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