He always had interest in music. At the age of seven he already played the guitar, then continued with piano, drums and other instruments. He lived his adolescence in his natal city, where played in a hardcore-punk band. Then was in the band Flipper, this time as a singer. Nevertheless, the band that made him change was "AWOL", with new wave influences. At the end of the eighties definitively moved to New York City. There, he started frequenting as Disc Jockey in some clubs. He realised several singles through the independent label Instinct.

In 1991 recorded the soundtrack of the TV series "Twin Peaks" (David Lynch). Its insistent rhythm derived from house music gave as result "Go". The single turned surprisingly into a British hit, climbing to the Top Ten. After this success, he was invited to remix a great number of famous artists including Michael Jackson, Brian Eno, Depeche Mode, Erasure, B 52's and Orbital.

His career as a solo artist began in 1992 when edited his first LP called "Moby". The same year signed a contract with Mute Records, and edited "Ambient" in 1993, a disc with unpublished material recorded between 1988-1991.

In 1994 realised the single "Hymn", one of the first fusions of gospel, techno and ambient. Again, he decided to change of company. This time came the turn of Elektra Records, and in 1995 edited "Everything is wrong". The reviews were very good, specially from the American press, which they ignored him before.

Later appeared "Animal Rights" (1996), a different work to all those who were expecting the typical Moby sound. The listener found hardcore-punk influences of his youth, totally foreign to the electronic figure of two years ago. The critic and the fans didn’t like that creation. In 1997 he edited “I Like To Score”.

Nevertheless, in the middle of 1999 returned to the centre of the electronic scene with an album called "Play", an ambitious production that joins the sensibility of soul, the music of movies, and dance rhythms. Since then, all were photos in magazines, reputation, and 18 songs that sounded all the time. Some of them like " Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad? ", "Porcelain" or "Find My Baby", were used for TV advertisings and climbed up to the top of all the charts. His dedication to this album cost him nominations and prizes all over the world, from the Grammy up to the Brit Awards.

His latest works: "18", edited in 2002. Not so successful as "Play", but with good songs and his particular style. Recently, in March of 2005, appeared "Hotel", the new album of Moby.

Not only his music differs from the traditional image of electronic scene, also his lifestyle is considered strange by lot of people: he’s abstemious and don’t smoke; he’s Christian but hates the churches; he’s vegan and preaches the love to animals and the environment. As well he’s also against the racism and the North American institutions.

MOBY AND THE ANIMALS.
He’s vegan since he was 21 years old. One of his goals is be able to live in a world full of vegetarians and where the animals don’t have to suffer to satisfy human purposes. In his own words remembers the change that realize in his life: “During the high-school, one question that had been taking trouble certainly time, began really to shock me: how might I be so worried about my own pets are nice while at the same time I was eating other animals? I only seemed to be hypocritical. Then I decided that there was enough violence in the world. I didn’t want to be responsible of the animal suffering. Intellectually, the human beings and the animals can be different, but it’s so obvious that the animals have a rich emotional life and that they feel joy and pain". (Extract from an interview made by Linda Friedman for TEEN PEOPLE Real Life Diaries)

“It is easy to forget about the connection between a hamburger and the cow where it comes from. But I forced myself to recognize the fact that whenever I was eating a hamburger, a cow had stopped breathing, to ruminate and to walk happily along the hills. It’s very difficult to someone who eats a hot-dog to do the connection that this at some time was a part of the intestines of a pig. If only the persons were educated about of what approaches to their mouths, surely they would change their eating habits. I don’t believe that the persons who visit a farm or a slaughterhouse, go out without they become vegetarians”.

ESSAYS
This is the way that Moby chose to spread veganism to the world and respect towards the animals.

Why I’m vegan? (taken from the inside booklet of “Play” album, 1999)

Oftentimes when I meet someone they ask me why I’m a vegan (a vegan is someone who neither eats, wears, or uses animal products). Before I list the reasons why I’ve chosen to be a vegan let me say that I don’t judge people who choose to eat meat. People make different choices for different reasons, and it’s not my place to judges the choices that other people make. Just being alive is inevitable going to cause suffering. But anyway, here’s why I’m vegan:

1) I love animals, and I believe that a vegan diet causes less suffering than a diet centered around animal products.

2) Animals are sentient creatures with their own wills, and it seems wrong to force our will onto another creature just because we’re able to.

3) A great deal of medical evidence points the fact that a diet centered around animal products is terrible for you. Animal products based diets have been repeatedly proven to cause and exacerbate cancer, heart disease, obesity, impotence, diabetes, etc.

4) A vegan diet is materially more efficient than an animal product based diet. By that I mean that you can feed lots of more people with grain directly than by feeding that grain to a cow and the killing the cow. In a world where people are starving it seems criminal to fatten up cows with grain that could be keeping people alive.

5) The raisings of farm animals is environmentally disastrous. All of the waste from animal farming gets washed into our drinking water supply, poisoning our drinking water and fouling our lakes, streams, and oceans.

6) Vegan food is nice to look at. Compare a plate with grains and fruits and vegetables to a plate with pigs’ intestines, chicken legs, and chopped up cows’ muscles. So that’s pretty much why I’m a vegan. If for some reasons you ever decide to become a vegetarian or a vegan, please do so carefully. Most of our conventional diets are so meat and animal product based that when we give up meat we don’t know what to replace it with. Although a vegetarian or vegan diet is million times healthier than a carnivorous diet, making the transition away from eating animals needs to be done wisely. Most health food stores and bookstores have good books that can help you to make the transition from an animal product based diet to a vegetarian or vegan diet.

Animal Rights
(taken from the inside booklet of the album “Animal Rights”, 1996)

If you look at the course of western history you'll see that we're slowly granting basic rights to everyone. A long time ago only kings had rights. Then rights were extended to property-owning white men. Then all men. Then wymyn. Then children. Then the mentally retarded. Now we're agonizing over the extension of basic rights to homosexuals and animals. We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights.

I define basic rights as this: the ability to pursue life without having someone else's will involuntarily forced upon you. Or, as the framers of the constitution put it, the ability to have "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".

By what criteria can you justify denying basic rights to any living thing? Realize that by whatever criteria you employ someone could deny basic rights to you if they objected to your species, sexual preferences, color, religion, ideology etc. Would you eat your housecat, or force a mentally retarded child to ingest oven cleaner? If not, then why is it ok to eat cows and test products on sentient animals? I believe that to knowingly commit actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the extreme. I call upon you to be compassionate and treat others as you want to be treated. If you don't want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn't condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not.