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Suzanne Nadine Vega was born in Santa Monica, California, United States.

Her mother, Pat Vega (née Schumacher), is a computer systems analyst of German-Swedish heritage.

Her father, Richard Peck, is of Scottish-English-Irish origin.

They divorced soon after her birth.

Her stepfather, Edgardo Vega Yunqué, also known as Ed Vega, was a writer and teacher from Puerto Rico.

When Vega was two and a half, her family moved to New York City. She grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Upper West Side.

She was not aware of having a different biological father, Richard Peck, until she was nine years old. They met for the first time in her late 20s, and they remain in contact.

She attended the High School of Performing Arts, now renamed Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School, where she studied modern dance and graduated in 1977.

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Moby, is an American musician, songwriter, singer, producer, and animal rights activist.

He has sold 20 million records worldwide.

AllMusic considers him to be "among the most important dance music figures of the early 1990s, helping bring dance music to a mainstream audience both in the United Kingdom and the United States".

After taking up guitar and piano at age nine, he played in several underground punk rock bands through the 1980s before turning to electronic dance music.

In 1989, he moved to New York City and became a prolific figure as a DJ, producer, and remixer.

His 1991 single "Go" was his mainstream breakthrough, reaching No. 10 in the United Kingdom. Between 1992 and 1997 he scored eight top 10 hits on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart including "Move (You Make Me Feel So Good)", "Feeling So Real", and "James Bond Theme (Moby Re-Version)".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby

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