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Mute Records
Mute Records was an independent record label based in the UK, founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller. In 2002 the label was sold to EMI.
Mute Records made a name for itself as the label that was willing to sign post-punk artists like Fad Gadget (Frank Tovey's pseudonym), Einstürzende Neubauten, Throbbing...
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Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode (IPA: [dəˈpɛʃ], də-PESH) are an English electronic band who formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan (lead vocals), Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar, vocals, chief songwriter after 1981),...
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- 1980
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk (German: power plant or power station, German pronunciation: [ˈkʁaftvɛɐk]) is an influential electronic band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The signature Kraftwerk sound combines driving, repetitive rhythms with catchy melodies, mainly...
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- 1970
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The Residents
The Residents is an American avant-garde music and visual arts group who have been active since 1969. Their first official release under the name of The Residents was in 1972, and since then the band have gone on to release over sixty albums,...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1966
Laibach
Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music group, strongly associated with industrial, martial, and neo-classical musical styles. Laibach formed June 1, 1980 in Trbovlje, Slovenia (then Yugoslavian). Laibach represents the music wing of the Neue...
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- 1980
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Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft
D.A.F. is an influential German electropunk/NDW band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 featuring Gabriel "Gabi" Delgado-López (vocals), Robert Görl (drums, percussion, electronic instruments), Kurt "Pyrolator" Dahlke (electronic instruments), Michael...
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- 1978
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Dave Gahan
Dave Gahan (pronounced /ˈɡɑːn/; born May 9,1962 in North Weald, Essex, United Kingdom) is an English singer-songwriter, best known as the baritone lead singer for the British synthpop band Depeche Mode. He is also an accomplished solo artist.
Born...
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- May 9, 1962 (age 47 years)
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Erasure
Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell.
Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their debut single "Who Needs Love Like That". Following the release of their fourth single...
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- 1985
Throbbing Gristle
Throbbing Gristle is a British industrial music and visual arts group that evolved from the performance art group COUM Transmissions. The band consists of Genesis P-Orridge (bass, violin, vocals, vibraphone), Cosey Fanni Tutti (guitars, cornet,...
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The Prodigy
The Prodigy are an English electronic music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990 in Braintree, Essex, England. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers and The Crystal Method, as well as other acts they are pioneers of the big beat electronic...
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- 1990
Soft Cell
Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They consist of vocalist Marc Almond and David Ball on synthesizers. The duo is well known for their huge 1981 worldwide hit - a significantly reworked cover version of...
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- 1980
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1984
Einstürzende Neubauten
Einstürzende Neubauten (German pronunciation: [ˈaɪnˌʃtʏɐtsəndə ˈnɔʏˌbaʊtən]) is a German avant-garde music band, originally from West Berlin, formed in 1980. The group currently comprises Blixa Bargeld (lead vocals, guitar, keyboard), Alexander...
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- 1980
Vince Clarke
Vince Clarke (born Vincent John Martin, 3 July 1960, South Woodford, London) is an English pop musician and songwriter, who has been involved with a number of successful groups, including Depeche Mode, Yazoo, The Assembly and Erasure.
Raised in...
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- Jul 3, 1960 (age 49 years)
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SPK
SPK, formed in 1978 in Sydney, Australia, was a 1980s and early 1990s industrial music and noise music group. One member, Graeme Revell, would later go on to become a successful Hollywood movie composer.
The group was formed when Revell (aka...
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- 1978
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1988
Martin Gore
Martin Gore (born Martin Lee Gore, 23 July 1961, Dagenham, East London, England) is an English songwriter, lyricist, singer, guitarist and keyboardist. He is a founding member of Depeche Mode and has written the vast majority of their songs. His...
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- Jul 23, 1961 (age 48 years)
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Nitzer Ebb
Nitzer Ebb (pronounced night-zer or nit-zer—the band pronounces it both ways) are a British EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan (Bon) Harris (programming, synthesizers, drums, vocals), Douglas McCarthy (vocals), and David Gooday...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1982
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1995
Add N to
Add N to (X) were a three-piece British band specializing in electronic music performed on analogue synthesizers, formed in London in 1994.
The original band members were Andrew Aveling, Barry Smith (aka Barry 7) and Ann Shenton. Steven Claydon...
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- 2003
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are an Australian alternative rock band with multinational personnel, fronted by Nick Cave.
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds was originally formed in late 1983 by two former members of the Australian band The Birthday Party:...
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- 1983
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Boyd Rice
Boyd Blake Rice (born July or December 1956) is an American experimental sound artist under the moniker of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist, actor, photographer, author, member of the Partridge Family Temple religious group, co-founder of the...
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- 1955 (age 54 years)
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Goldfrapp
Goldfrapp is a British electronic music group. The band was formed in 1999 in London, England, and consists of Alison Goldfrapp (vocals/synthesizer) and Will Gregory (synthesizer).
Despite favourable reviews and a shortlisting for the Mercury Prize,...
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- 1999
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Inspiral Carpets
Inspiral Carpets are an alternative rock band from Oldham in Greater Manchester, England formed by Graham Lambert and Stephen Holt in 1983. The band is named after a clothing shop on their Oldham estate. Their sound is based around psychedelic...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1989
Mando Diao
Mando Diao is a garage rock band from Borlänge, Sweden. The band got their breakthrough with the release of the album Hurricane Bar. The song "God Knows" was featured in FIFA 06. Their main fan base is in Sweden, Germany, and Japan although their...
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- 1999
Meat Beat Manifesto
Meat Beat Manifesto, often shortened to Meat Beat or MBM, is an electronic music group originally consisting of Jack Dangers and Jonny Stephens formed in 1987 in Swindon, UK. The band, fronted by Dangers (the only permanent member), has proven...
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Barry Adamson
Barry Adamson (born in Moss Side, Manchester, 11 June 1958) is a British rock musician who has worked with rock bands such as Magazine, Visage, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and the electronic musicians Pan sonic. He has also worked on film...
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- Jun 11, 1958 (age 51 years)
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Andy Bell
Andy Bell (born Andrew Ivan Bell, 25 April 1964, Peterborough, England) is the lead singer of the English synthpop duo, Erasure.
Originally working in a meat packing plant in the UK, Bell responded to a newspaper advert that was looking for a singer...
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- Apr 25, 1964 (age 45 years)
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M83
M83 is an electronica act comprised of French musician Anthony Gonzalez. The band was founded in 2001 by Gonzalez and former member Nicolas Fromageau in Antibes. The musical style of the band owes something to the shoegazing genre in its extensive...
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Swell Maps
Swell Maps were an experimental English rock group of the 1970s from Birmingham, that foreshadowed the birth of post-punk.
Influenced by the disparate likes of T.Rex and the German progressive outfit, Can, they created a new soundscape that would be...
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Andrew Fletcher
Andrew John Fletcher (born 8 July 1961) (known as "Fletch"), is a co-founder and member of electronic band Depeche Mode.
Fletch had originally played bass in a band with Vince Clarke, but moved on to play synthesizers in the group Composition of...
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- Jul 8, 1961 (age 48 years)
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Alan Wilder
Alan Charles Wilder is a British musician, formerly of Depeche Mode. His current musical project is called Recoil, started as a side project to Depeche Mode, but when he left the latter in 1995, it evolved into Wilder's primary project. Wilder has...
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- Jun 1, 1959 (age 50 years)
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Liars
Liars is a three-piece American band consisting of Australian-born Angus Andrew (vocals/guitar), Aaron Hemphill (percussion, guitar, synth) and Julian Gross (drums). Although initially lumped into the New York post-punk revival scene of the early...
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Luke Slater
Luke Slater (born June 12, 1968 in Reading, England) has produced techno since the beginning of the 1990s.
One of Britain’s true electronic music and techno pioneers, with a career that has spanned 20 years and counting, Luke Slater is a national...
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- Jun 12, 1968 (age 41 years)
Art Brut
Art Brut are an English and German indie rock band. Their debut album, Bang Bang Rock & Roll, was released on 30 May 2005, with its follow up, It's a Bit Complicated, released on 25 June 2007. Named after French painter Jean Dubuffet's definition of...
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- 2003
Crime and the City Solution
Crime and The City Solution were a rock music band formed by Australian singer and songwriter Simon Bonney.
They had four distinct line-ups: Sydney in 1977-78, Melbourne in 1979, and two groupings in Berlin from 1985-1990. The only common member in...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1977
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1993
Alison Goldfrapp
Alison Elizabeth Margaret Goldfrapp (born 13 May 1966) is an English soprano singer-songwriter with the duo Goldfrapp.
Goldfrapp was born in Enfield , London, the youngest of six children. She was raised in Alton, Hampshire where she went to Alton...
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- May 13, 1966 (age 43 years)
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Dave Krusen
David Krusen (born March 10, 1966 in Tacoma, Washington) is an American musician who is best known for being the original drummer for the American rock band Pearl Jam and for his work on the band's debut album, Ten. Krusen was also a member of the...
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- Mar 10, 1966 (age 43 years)
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José González
José González is a Swedish indie folk singer-songwriter of Argentine descent.
González was born in a suburb near Gothenburg, Sweden. He commented; "It's a very small town. It has about a half-million people living there. It's a pretty good music...
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- 1978 (age 31 years)
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Karin Dreijer Andersson
Karin Elisabeth Dreijer Andersson (born 7 April 1975) is the lead vocalist of electronic music duo The Knife, formed with her brother Olof Dreijer. Andersson was previously the vocalist and guitarist of the alternative rock band Honey Is Cool....
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- Apr 7, 1975 (age 34 years)
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Anja Garbarek
Anja Garbarek (b. 24 July 1970 in Oslo) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of the Norwegian jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek and grew up around Oslo. She received the Spellemannsprisen in 2001 for her album Smiling & Waving in the...
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- Jul 24, 1970 (age 39 years)
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The Knife
The Knife are an electro pop duo from Sweden. They consist of siblings Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer, who together also run their own record company, Rabid Records.
Formed in 1999, the group first gained international recognition when...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1999
Will Gregory
William Owen Gregory (Born 17 September 1959 in Bristol) is best known as a songwriter and as the lead keyboards and synthesizer player of the electronic music group Goldfrapp. Originally a classical music student at York University, Gregory hails...
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- Sep 17, 1959 (age 50 years)
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¡Forward, Russia!
¡Forward, Russia! are an English alternative band from Leeds, formed in early 2004, though are currently on hiatus. Until 2006, the band only named tracks with numbers, in the order that they were written. The band has used Faux Cyrillic, with its...
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- 2004
Bon Harris
Bon Harris (born Vaughan David Harris, 12 August 1965 in Chelmsford, Essex, England) is an English composer, producer, singer/song writer, and multi-instrumentalist. He is a founding member of the quintessential British EBM group Nitzer Ebb,...
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- Aug 12, 1965 (age 44 years)
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Martyn P. Casey
Martyn Paul Casey (born 10 July 1960) is an Australian rock bass guitarist. He is best known as a member of The Triffids and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. He is also a member of Nick Cave's new band, Grinderman. Casey plays either his Fender...
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- Jul 10, 1960 (age 49 years)
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Recoil
Recoil is a musical project created by former Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder. Essentially a solo venture, Recoil began whilst Wilder was still in Depeche Mode, as an outlet for his experimental, less pop-oriented compositions. Once he announced his...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1986
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Virgin Prunes
The Virgin Prunes was an Irish gothic rock band. The band formed in 1977 and disbanded in 1986 after the departure of member Gavin Friday. The rest of the band continued on without him for a while as The Prunes, but they too ended activities by 1990...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1977
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1986
Can
Can was an experimental rock band formed in West Germany in 1968. One of the first "krautrock" groups, they rejected American influences and incorporated strong minimalist and world music elements into their often psychedelic music.
Can constructed...
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- 1968
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Miranda Sex Garden
Miranda Sex Garden was a band from London, England. Formed in 1990, they were originally a trio of madrigal singers, their first album, Madra (1991), was entirely a cappella, with the songs all based on traditional English verse. By their second...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1988
Tarwater
Tarwater is a German music duo comprising Bernd Jestram and Ronald Lippok. Tarwater have recorded several albums of mostly instrumental music usually tagged as post-rock.
Jestram and Lippok met in an East German punk rock band, and began recording...
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Dome
Dome were a musical group consisting of Bruce Gilbert (guitar, vocals, synthesizer) and Graham Lewis (bass, vocals, synthesizer).
Gilbert and Lewis were both members of Wire, and formed Dome during Wire's 1980–1984 hiatus. Over their first three...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1980
Renegade Soundwave
Renegade Soundwave (sometimes shortened to RSW) was an electronic music group. Formed in London in 1986, the group originally consisted of Danny Briottet, Gary Asquith and Carl Bonnie.
Debuting on the Rhythm King label with the "Kray Twins" single,...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1986
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1996
The Normal
Silicon Teens was a fictional United Kingdom based pop group in a similar vein to The Archies, and Gorillaz. The project was the creation of Mute Records founder Daniel Miller.
The "group" was publicised as a quartet named Darryl, Jacki, Paul and...
Peach Union
Peach Union were a pop/dance/electronic trio who formed in London, England and had several UK and U.S. pop and dance chart hit singles in the late 1990s. Originally called Peach, the act was forced to alter its name to Peach Union in the United...
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Bruce Gilbert
Bruce Gilbert (born Bruce Clifford Gilbert, 18 May 1946, Watford, Hertfordshire) is an English musician, one of the founding members of the influential and experimental art-punk band Wire, and a pioneer in the experimental noise scene.
He studied...
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- May 18, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Fad Gadget
Fad Gadget is the stage name of Francis John (Frank) Tovey (8 September 1956 – 3 April 2002). An influential British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist, he was an exponent of both New Wave and early industrial music.
Tovey studied...
Date of birth:
- Sep 8, 1956
Date of death:
- Apr 3, 2002 (age 45 years)
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I'm From Barcelona
I'm from Barcelona is a pop group from Jönköping, Sweden, best known for its 29 band members and eclectic mix of instruments such as clarinets, saxophones, flutes, trumpets, banjos, accordions, kazoos, guitars, drums, and keyboards among others....
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- May 21, 2005
Wire
Wire are an English rock band formed in London in October 1976, (and intermittently active to the present) by Colin Newman (vocals, guitar), Graham Lewis (bass, vocals), Bruce Gilbert (guitar), and Robert Gotobed (né Grey) (drums). They were...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1977
Tom Hingley
Tom Hingley (born 9 July 1965, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England) is a musician best known as the lead vocalist of the English rock band, Inspiral Carpets.
He moved to Oldham in 1984, formed a band called Too Much Texas, and got a job collecting...
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- Jul 9, 1965 (age 44 years)
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Yazoo
Yazoo (known as Yaz in the U.S.) are an English synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex. They had a number of top ten hits in the British charts in the early 1980s. Formed in late 1981 by former Depeche Mode songwriter Vince Clarke (synthesizer) and...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1982
Pole
Pole is the artistic name of Stefan Betke, a German electronic music artist commonly associated with the glitch genre as well as dubtronica.
Pole took his name from a Waldorf 4-Pole filter which he accidentally dropped and broke in 1996. Though the...
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Robert Rental
Robert Rental was the stage name of Robert Donnachie (1952-2000), a pioneer of the post punk DIY industrial electronic music scene in the United Kingdom.
Originally from Port Glasgow, Scotland, he moved to the south of England with Thomas Leer in...
Date of birth:
- 1952
Date of death:
- 2000 (age 48 years)
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Moby
Richard Melville Hall (born September 11, 1965), better known by his stage name Moby, is an American DJ, singer-songwriter, and musician.
He sings and plays keyboard, guitar, bass guitar and drums. Moby became a successful artist on the ambient...
Date of birth:
- Sep 11, 1965 (age 44 years)
