Tag Archives: Music video

Lent explained through the music of Sting

Sting

Is there a little black spot on your head today? Then you probably know what Lent is. If you aren’t Catholic and don’t really understand Lent, here is a music video that uses the music of Sting’s “King of Pain to help explain.

Books about Lent

Minnesota’s “Chocolate Rain” gets award

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.