Moby

Known by his stage name Moby Richard Melville Hall is an American singersongwriter musician DJ and photographer He is well known for his electronic music and animal rights activism  Moby has sold over 20 million albums worldwide and is considered one of the most important contributor to dance music in the early 1990s  His electronic dance music work which experimented with techno house breakbeat downtempo electronica and spokeword layering helped introduce and popularize dance music in both the UK and America with his fifth studio album Play  Originally released in mid1999 the album sold 6000 copies in its first week and it reentered the charts in early 2000 and became an unexpected hit producing eight singles and selling over 10 million copies worldwide  Moby followed the album with 18 in 2002 to much success selling over 5 million copies worldwide   His work spans eleven complete albums while editing producing performing and remixing music for acts such as  Michael Jackson David Bowie Daft Punk Britney Spears New Order Public Enemy Guns N Roses Metallica Soundgarden and others   Moby is considered by some to be a renaissance man creating or supporting restaurants artist collectives animal activism groups while writing and photographing for articles and books throughout his career  He is an advocate for network neutrality along with other political causes such as art education and antiviolence campaigns