Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday

Posted on YouTube on April 22, 2007, “Chocolate Rain” has rapidly become an extremely popular internet meme with a banging 24 million views and over 186,000 comments as of June 15, 2008. This song and music video written and performed by the YouTube award-winning singer Tay Zonday is currently the topic of several parodies, remixes, tributes, and covers on the Internet.

The video actually shows a bespectacled Tay Zonday wearing a plain white T-shirt and vocalizing with the condenser microphone in a recording studio. So what’s with this video that caught even the attention of the media, TV and radio shows, as well as famous singers and celebrities? Well, the song is recognized for Zonday’s deep resonating voice and his distinctive mannerisms while singing.

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