Adam Nyerere Bahner (born May 21, 1982), better known by the pseudonym Tay Zonday[3][4][5] or as "Chocolate Rain Guy",[6][7] is an American YouTube personality, singer-songwriter, and voice actor.

He appeared on G4TV's Attack of the Show!, VH1's Best Week Ever,[19] Lily Allen and Friends, Jimmy Kimmel Live!,[20] Tosh.0 and Maury[21][22] where he performed "Chocolate Rain" on national television a little over three months after he posted his composition on YouTube.

[25] People said: "He's scored a YouTube hit with his repetitive, keyboard-driven 'Chocolate Rain', and after a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Tay Zonday's star is shining even brighter".

John Mayer reportedly copied Zonday's keyboard riff with his guitar in concert,[26][27] along with appearing on Best Week Ever improvising a parody to the tune of Nelly Furtado's "Say It Right".

He starred alongside Leslie Hall in a commercial for Firefox web browser singing a song called "Users Against Boredom" in a parody of "We Are the World".

Zonday has said that his voice is often compared to Paul Robeson, Barry White, James Earl Jones, and Brad Roberts of the Crash Test Dummies.

[35] He appeared in-person at Intel's Consumer Electronics Show booth, rendering the source files of the "Chocolate Rain" YouTube video in Sony Vegas.

[39] Zonday voiced "The King" in the Happy Wheels animated web series based on the video game of the same name, which premiered on Go90 in November 2016.

[40] In July 2017, Machinima, Inc. and Hasbro cast several YouTube personalities, including Zonday, for the animated web series Transformers: Titans Return to garner online attention.