Remember "Chocolate Rain," the YouTube hit from Adam Nyerere Bahner, who you might know a bit better as Tay Zonday? It's July, which means it's officially been 10 years since the song became one of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 23, 2007, Adam Nyerere Bahner — better known by his YouTube moniker — uploaded a nearly five-minute original song called ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remember Tay Zonday? Remember "Chocolate Rain"? He who moves away from the mic to breathe in and his deep-voiced viral hit first ...

IIf you haven’t already heard Tay Zonday’s Internet hit “Chocolate Rain,” consider yourself lucky. One hundred professional jingle writers working for 100 days straight couldn’t craft a song as ...

And that’s where people like Tay Zonday, whose real name is Adam Nyerere Bahner, came in. While at the time of his rise to stardom there had already been song-based memes like Rickrolling, there ...

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Like most people who were forwarded a link for Tay Zonday's "Chocolate Rain" video in April, I was completely entranced. Mystified, even. I was dying to know: who was this baby-faced baritone? Was he ...

Maybe it’s just the nostalgia talking, but there’s something so soothingly innocent about the viral videos from the first decade of this millennium, back when the internet was a place of refuge. Go ...

When Zonday’s song took off, there was no template for handling sudden internet fame. He called his video a “defining moment” for YouTube and moved to Los Angeles to pursue opportunities. The response ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. More than 13 years after YouTuber and musician Tay Zonday released his ...

Tay Zonday, the 25-year-old, self-taught YouTube singing sensation, is back with yet another deep-throated tune. Zonday’s latest hit, "I Know Your Secret," which posted Sunday, is already approaching ...

Tay Zonday gave us one of the most iconic videos in YouTube history. But the man behind “Chocolate Rain” has been through way more than most fans ever realized. On April 23, 2007, Adam Nyerere Bahner ...