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 ...

Tay Zonday, Under the Covers In less time than it used to take to download the Hampster Dance on a dial-up modem, Tay Zonday’s musical epic “Chocolate Rain” has spawned thousands of cover versions, ...

Remember Tay Zonday? Remember “Chocolate Rain”? He who moves away from the mic to breathe in and his deep-voiced viral hit first took YouTube by storm 10 years ago yesterday, and Zonday caught up with ...

Adam Bahner, who was studying at the University of Minnesota at the time, chose a stage name from a Google search — one with zero hits that was also easy to spell. The newly minted Tay Zonday was ...

Many of the most explosive and virulent online videos -- think: “Star Wars Kid,” “Numa Numa” and the recent interpretation of “Thriller” by Filipino prisoners -- manage to be at once bizarre, hypnotic ...

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 ...