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Hello and welcome to So-Djaker-on-songwriting.

This is Simon here with Brian and we hope you're all in good health.

Joining us for episode 201 is a highly prolific and hugely eclectic American musician,

singer-songwriter, producer and DJ who first made his mark on the music world

as a dance pioneer in the early 90s, before finding crossover pop success later that decade

with his smash hip breakthrough album, Play.

In late May 2021 via Deutsche Grammophon, he released Reprise, his 19th studio album featuring

orchestral and acoustic reworkings of some of his best known songs from across a three-decade recording

career with guest appearances from the likes of Chris Christophason, my morning jackets Jim James,

and our former guest, Gregory Porter.

Not want to do things by Harves, on the same day the album came out, he also dropped Moby Doc,

a fascinating feature-length documentary about his life.

We are thrilled to welcome the brilliant Moby to the podcast.

Our guest was born Richard Melville Hall in 1965 in Harlem, New York City,

and nicknamed Moby by his father as a reference to Moby Dick author and it seems his distant

ancestor Herman Melville. He grew up in Darien, Connecticut and showed an

interest in music from an early age, picking up the guitar when he was around

nine years old. He later taught himself bass, piano and drums, studied

jazz and music theory and also played in various neighborhood punk rock bands.

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