How did musician Moby get his name?
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he's related to the author of moby dick. the author is his great great great uncle or something.
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His great-great-great-great uncle (or close) is Herman Melville. He was given the nickname due to that.
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I bet the audience named him. he probably had another name, but he flashed on stage. or did something inappropiate and just like that...people understood. moby.
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His first wife was a whale.
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"Moby has often said he is a distant relative of author Herman Melville. In a 2001 interview he told CNN, "The basis for Richard Melville Hall -- and for Moby -- is that supposedly Herman Melville was my great-great-great-granduncle". http://www.answers.com/topic/moby?cat=entertainment Interesting.
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