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Tay Zonday
Background information
Birth nameAdam Nyerere Bahner
Born (1982-07-06) July 6, 1982 (age 42)
GenresOutsider music
R&B
Experimental music
Spoken word
Occupation(s)singer, actor, announcer, musician, Rapper
Instrument(s)Vocals
Keyboard
Years active2007–present
Websitewww.tayzonday.com
Musical artist

Adam Nyerere Bahner (born July 6, 1982), better known by the pseudonym Tay Zonday, is an American musician, YouTube personality and voice actor. He is well known by listeners for his deep baritone voice whilst singing. He garnered mainstream exposure when his song "Chocolate Rain", and accompanying video on YouTube, became a popular Internet meme in July 2007. As of October 2011, "Chocolate Rain" has more than 73 million views.

Career

Zonday starred in a commercial for Comedy Central's "Last Laugh 07", hosted by Lewis Black. He released a video titled "Cherry Chocolate Rain", in a promotion with Dr Pepper. He starred alongside Leslie Hall in a commercial for Firefox singing a song titled "Users Against Boredom" in a parody of We Are The World. Tay has said his voice is often compared to Ru Paul, Paul Robeson, Barry White, James Earl Jones, and Brad Roberts of the Crash Test Dummies. He appeared in-person at Intel's Consumer Electronics Show booth, rendering the source files of the "Chocolate Rain" YouTube video in Sony Vegas.

The Grammy Award-winning music video for rock band Weezer's single "Pork and Beans" featured Zonday along with other YouTube celebrities in May 2008, spoofing his appearance in "Chocolate Rain"; as well, he performed an acoustic version of the song with Brian Bell of Weezer.

As a voice actor, Zonday voiced part of a multimedia presentation built to celebrate 50 years of NASA history. He also voiced a role in AdultSwim's Robot Chicken, spoofing his own song "Chocolate Rain".

Zonday was featured on the "Jace Hall Show", where he was comically interviewed at a famous Hollywood restaurant in a play on the dissonance between Internet-fame and the traditional entertainment industry.

In February 2010 Zonday cameoed in a Vizio Super Bowl commercial opened by Beyoncé. In October 2010, he appeared on Comedy Central's Night of Too Many Stars autism charity event during a musical number with Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert.

In August 2011, Zonday appeared on America's Got Talent and performed a grand total of 15 seconds of his song "Chocolate Rain".

Zonday was also featured in Dave Days' Youtube video spoof of Justin Bieber's song, Baby. The video has over 14 million views.

Zonday had a cameo in The Guild Season 5 episode 3, Megagame-o-ramacon!, aired on August 9, 2011.

Tay Zonday is featured in a 2011 Mike Diva comedy YouTube video as a dubstep dancing mastermind.

See also

References

  1. Profile on official site
  2. IMDb
  3. Ryan, Joal (August 9, 2007). "The "Chocolate" Reign of Tay Zonday". E! Online. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
  4. ^ " "Chocolate Rain Singer Tay Zonday Still A Star; Chocolate Rain Has Gotten Almost 48M YouTube Views". MYfox Phoenix. February 17, 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-24.
  5. YouTube
  6. funnyguy1375 (2007-11-15). "Last Laugh 07 Chocolate Rain - Tay Zonday". YouTube. Retrieved 2009-01-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. YouTube - "Cherry Chocolate Rain" Original Song by Tay Zonday
  8. Riley, Duncan (2008-01-07). "Exclusive: Mozilla Secretly Launches A Viral Campaign For Firefox". Techcrunch.com. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
  9. channelintel (2008-01-07). "Chocolate Rain at CES". YouTube. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
  10. YouTube - Pork & Beans Acoustic - Tay Zonday and Brian Bell
  11. "50th Anniversary of NASA". Nasa.gov. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
  12. "Tay Zonday IMDB". IMDB. Retrieved 2010-03-13.
  13. Video: The Jace Hall Show with Tay Zonday, Gearbox (2008-06-27). "Video: The Jace Hall Show with Tay Zonday, Gearbox". GameArgus.com. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
  14. Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert - "Everybody's Talking 'Bout Sully" (2010-10-22). "Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert - "Everybody's Talking 'Bout Sully"". Comedy Central. Retrieved 2010-10-30.
  15. "How To Dance Dubstep feat. Tay Zonday". YouTube Mike Diva. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help); Unknown parameter |http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= ignored (help)

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