Referring to the famous white whale from Herman Melville's novel, or the electronic musician Richard Melville Hall who adopted this stage name.
From Melville's 1851 novel 'Moby Dick,' where the whale's name possibly derives from Mocha Dick, a real albino sperm whale. The musician Moby chose this name as Herman Melville was his great-great-grand-uncle.
The real Mocha Dick was a legendary albino whale that attacked ships near Mocha Island off Chile in the early 1800s - he survived encounters with whalers for over 30 years, inspiring Melville's fictional leviathan.
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