Minnesota’s “Chocolate Rain” gets award

Posted on March 21, 2008 | 2 Comments

A 25-year-old University of Minnesota grad Adam Bahner, better known as “Tay Zonday,” climbed the YouTube charts in 2007 and is now being acknowledged for it. Zonday is one of 12 winners of the second annual YouTube Video Awards, recognizing the top user-created videos of 2007. His song and music video “Chocolate Rain” has been viewed over 15 million times. Zonday recorded the video in his Minneapolis living room in a make-shift studio space made of two-by-fours and bed sheets.

 

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2 responses to “Minnesota’s “Chocolate Rain” gets award”

  1. Smokey's avatar coffee | January 4, 2009 at 9:15 pm |

    i nominate Chocolate rain as the #1 most likely song to get stuck in a person’s head

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  2. tayfan2's avatar tayfan2 | March 21, 2008 at 4:24 pm |

    Tay won! [e- screeeeeeeming!] Congratulations to all of the winners.
    Tay is a very versatile artist and one never knows what’s coming next. His most recent work was “A Real Slow Drag” a Scott Joplin ‘ragtime” interpretation played entirely from memory.

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