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Coordinates | 6°26′″N100°12′″N |
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name | Tay Zonday |
background | solo_singer |
birth name | Adam Nyerere Bahner |
birth date | July 06, 1982 |
instrument | VocalsKeyboard |
genre | Outsider musicR&B;Experimental musicSpoken word |
occupation | singer, actor, announcer, musician, Rapper |
years active | 2007–present |
website | www.tayzonday.com |
notable instruments | }} |
Adam Nyerere Bahner (born July 6, 1982), better known by the pseudonym Tay Zonday, is an American musician, YouTube personality and voice actor. He is well-known by listeners for his deep baritone voice whilst singing. He entered mainstream exposure when his song "Chocolate Rain", and accompanying video on YouTube, became a popular Internet meme in July 2007. , "Chocolate Rain" has more than 70 million views.
The Australian ''Daily Telegraph'' newspaper wrote: "Tay Zonday has written perhaps the most listened to song in the world right now." ''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." The article also noted that celebrity musicians paid tribute to the song as its popularity rapidly peaked in August 2007. Singer John Mayer reportedly mimicked Zonday's keyboard riff with his guitar in concert, along with appearing on ''Best Week Ever'' improvising a parody to the tune of Nelly Furtado's "Say It Right". Green Day drummer Tré Cool recorded a cover of "Chocolate Rain" which he posted on Youtube. Zonday also became the subject of thousands of other parodies and remixes on YouTube. A clip of his video was also shown on CW11's ''Online Nation'', a new series. Zonday has been interviewed twice on ''Good Morning America'', in March and November 2008.
The Grammy Award-winning music video for rock band Weezer's single "Pork and Beans" featured Zonday along with other YouTube celebrities in May 2008, spoofing his appearance in "Chocolate Rain"; as well, he performed an acoustic version of the song with Brian Bell of Weezer.
As a voice actor, Zonday voiced part of a multimedia presentation built to celebrate 50 years of NASA history. He also voiced a role in AdultSwim's Robot Chicken, spoofing his own song "Chocolate Rain".
Zonday was featured on the "Jace Hall Show", where he was comically interviewed at a famous Hollywood restaurant in a play on the dissonance between Internet-fame and the traditional entertainment industry.
In February 2010 Zonday cameoed in a Vizio Super Bowl commercial opened by Beyoncé. In October 2010, he appeared on Comedy Central's Night of Too Many Stars autism charity event during a musical number with Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert.
In August 2011, Zonday appeared on ''America's Got Talent'' and performed a grand total of 15 seconds of his song "Chocolate Rain".
Zonday had a cameo in The Guild Season 5 episode 3, ''Megagame-o-ramacon!'', aired on August 9, 2011.
Category:1982 births Category:Living people Category:African American singer-songwriters Category:American Internet personalities Category:American male singers Category:Internet memes Category:Musicians from Minnesota Category:People from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Gaillard gained attention in the French media after performing a well-documented series of pranks, including an appearance disguised as a Lorient football player in the ''2002 Coupe de France'' final match, during which he took part in the winners' celebrations and was greeted by the then president of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac. He is also an amateur football player and has posted videos of his skills.
Gaillard has appeared in several sport events, TV game shows and political rallies.
The majority of Gaillard's stunts have resulted in prison sentences for the comedian.
His videos were mostly posted on Stage 6. After this did not pick up he posted them on his YouTube channel. In most, Gaillard plays pranks on other people and TV shows.
Gaillard's motto is ''C'est en faisant n'importe quoi qu'on devient n'importe qui'' ("It's by doing whatever, that one becomes whoever.").
Most of Gaillard's videos are shot by his friend Grégory Laffargue.
Gaillard shot his first sketch in 1999 with a friend in Montpellier. In 2001, he created an internet website, nimportequi.com.
He gained notoriety in 2002 at the finals of the Coupe de France. Disguised as an FC Lorient player, he celebrated the team's victory with the players, shook the hand of the then French President Jacques Chirac and signed autographs, without anyone realizing that he was not a player on the team.
Some of his most famous sketches are parodies of the Rocky Balboa movies, Pac Man, Mario Kart, and his football videos.
He often dresses up in large animal costumes. Pig, dog, cat, turtle, snail, bee, shark, kangaroo, spider, beaver, fly, gorilla, chicken, penguin, giraffe, rabbit, butterfly and sheep have all been used in pranks.
In 2007, he gained the attention of journalists from Le Monde and was invited on a few talk shows..
On his official site, Gaillard claims over 1.1 billion views on his videos on the web.
Gaillard also appeared in Orangina, Pepsi, Durex and LG commercials.
Category:1975 births Category:People from Montpellier Category:Living people Category:French humorists Category:Pranksters
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Coordinates | 6°26′″N100°12′″N |
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name | Ari Vatanen |
birth date | April 27, 1952 nationality Finnish |
years | 1974 - 1998, 2003 |
teams | Ford, Opel, Peugeot, Subaru, BMW, Mitsubishi |
races | 101 |
championships | 1 (1981) |
wins | 10 |
podiums | 27 |
stagewins | 527 |
points | 518 |
first race | 1974 1000 Lakes Rally |
first win | 1980 Acropolis Rally |
last win | 1985 Swedish Rally |
last race | 2003 Rally Finland }} |
In 1984, Vatanen signed to drive the Peugeot 205 T16 for Peugeot's factory team. From the 1984 1000 Lakes Rally to 1985 Swedish Rally, Vatanen won five world rallies in a row. Close to death after a major accident on the 1985 Rally Argentina, Vatanen spent 18 months winning a personal health battle over serious injury and depression. He went on to make a complete recovery and his return to motorsport in 1987 saw him go on to win the Paris-Dakar Rally four times; with Peugeot in 1987, 1989 and 1990, and with Citroën in 1991. He became the centre of controversy when his car was stolen whilst leading the same rally in 1988.
With Peugeot, Vatanen also won the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb, after Peugeot stopped participating in the World Rally Championship in 1986, due to the demise of Group B rallying. Peugeot used the lessons learnt from its 205 T16 to create the 405 T16. With at least , large aerofoils, four-wheel drive and four-wheel steering, Vatanen took the car up the hill in record time, his efforts being captured in the award-winning short film ''Climb Dance''.
Vatanen's autobiography ''Every Second Counts'', detailing his life and career up until that point, was published in 1988 (SAF Publishing, ISBN 0-946719-04-7) and instantly became a best seller.
Vatanen continued competing in the World Rally Championship more or less actively until the 1998 season. He drove for Mitsubishi Ralliart Europe in four events in 1989 and in five events in 1990. His best result with the Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 was second at the 1990 1000 Lakes Rally. From 1992 to 1993, he competed for Subaru in 11 events, finishing second three times, including on the debut event of the first Subaru Impreza in Finland. Vatanen briefly led the event before being overhauled by eventual winner Juha Kankkunen. Even so, he was dropped by the Subaru team at the end of the 1993 season in favour of Carlos Sainz.
The following year he returned to the wheel of a Ford, driving the Ford Escort Cosworth for a semi-private team, and then being co-opted into the Ford factory team where he stood in for the injured Francois Delecour. His most notable result that year was a podium finish on Rally Argentina, the first time he had contested the event since his accident there nine years previously.
The 1995 and 1996 seasons were quiet for Vatanen, whose career as a top-line driver was slowly drawing to a close. At the time there was a surplus of drivers and those late in their careers, such as Vatanen, tended to lose out in favour of younger talents. Nevertheless, he continued to contest a few events then and in subsequent years, his best result being a podium finish at the 1998 Safari Rally. He then briefly returned to a works Subaru for the season-ending Rally of Great Britain, marking his 100th World Rally Championship event.
Although he became much less active in rallying, his hunger for motorsport had not left him completely however, and Vatanen joined Nissan in the Paris-Dakar in 2003, finishing seventh. He also made an appearance at the 2003 Rally Finland with a Bozian Racing-prepared Peugeot 206 WRC, and finished eleventh. In 2004 and 2005, Vatanen drove the Dakar for Nissan as well, and in 2007 he made another attempt with Volkswagen, but retired on the seventh stage.
He currently holds the position of 'Club Patron' to the Ireland's Donegal Motor Club since 2002. He has a long association with the Donegal Motor Club and the Donegal International Rally, competing twice early in his career, 1975 and 1978.
In September 2008, Vatanen took part in the ''Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally'', a round of the Scottish Rally Championship centred in Perth in Scotland. His co-driver was once again David Richards and they competed in the same Rothmans sponsored Ford Escort RS1800 that they drove in 1981. He was one of a number of ex-world champions to take part in the event in memory of McRae, who died in 2007.
In 2004 he was re-elected, this time from the list of the conservative French Union for a Popular Movement. In 2009 European Parliament elections Vatanen was again a National Coalition candidate in Finland, but he did not get elected this time.
In July 2009 Vatanen declared his interest in being a candidate to stand against Max Mosley in the FIA presidential elections in October, should current president Mosley decide to restand for another term. He later confirmed that he will run for the presidency. On 23 October 2009, Vatanen failed in his bid to be elected as president of the FIA, which was won by his former team boss at Peugeot, subsequently Scuderia Ferrari manager Jean Todt.
He is a signatory of the Prague Declaration on European Conscience and Communism.
! Year | ! Entrant | ! Car | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! 13 | ! 14 | ! WDC | ! Points |
! Ari Vatanen | ! Opel Ascona 19 | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | ! - | ! - | ||||||||||||||
rowspan=2 | Ari Vatanen | Ford Escort (Europe)>Ford Escort RS 1600 | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | - | - | |||||||||||||
Ford Escort (Europe)>Ford Escort RS 1800 | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | |||||||||||||||||
! Ari Vatanen | Ford Escort (Europe)>Ford Escort RS 1800 | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | ! - | ! - | |||||||||||||
! Ari Vatanen | Ford Escort (Europe)>Ford Escort RS 1800 | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | ! - | ! - | |||||||
rowspan=2 | ! Ari Vatanen | !rowspan=2 | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | - | - | |||||||||||
Marlboro (cigarette)>Marlboro | bgcolor="#000000" style="color: #ffffff" | |||||||||||||||||
rowspan=2 | ! Rothmans Rally Team | !rowspan=2 | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | 5th | 50 | ||||||||
BP Ford World Rally Team>Ford Motor Co | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | |||||||||||||||||
rowspan=2 | ! Publimmo Racing | !rowspan=2 | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | 4th | 50 | |||||||||||||
! Rothmans Rally Team | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | |||||||||||||
! Rothmans Rally Team | Ford Escort (Europe)>Ford Escort RS 1800 | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | |||||||
rowspan=3 | ! David Sutton Motorsport | !rowspan=2 | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | 13th | 15 | |||||||||||||
! MCD / Mobira | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | |||||||||||||||||
Rothmans Rally Team>Rothmans Opel Rally Team | ! Opel Ascona 400 | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | ||||||||||||||||
rowspan=2 | !rowspan=2 | ! Opel Ascona 400 | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | 6th | 44 | |||||||||||
! Opel Manta 400 | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | ||||||||||||||
! Peugeot Talbot Sport | ! Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | ! 4th | ! 60 | ||||||||||
! Peugeot Talbot Sport | ! Peugeot 205 Turbo 16 | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#FFFFBF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | ! 4th | ! 55 | |||||||
rowspan=2 | Subaru>Fuji Heavy Industries | Subaru Leone>Subaru RX Turbo | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | 19th | 16 | |||||||||||||
BP Ford World Rally Team>Ford Motor Co | ! Ford Sierra RS Cosworth | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | ||||||||||||||||
rowspan=2 | Prodrive>Prodrive BMW | ! BMW M3 | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | - | 0 | |||||||||||||
Ralliart>Ralliart Europe | ! Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | ||||||||||||||||
Ralliart>Mitsubishi Ralliart Europe | ! Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | ! 40th | ! 8 | |||||||||||
Ralliart>Mitsubishi Ralliart Europe | ! Mitsubishi Galant VR-4 | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | ! 16th | ! 15 | ||||||||||
rowspan=2 | ! Milk Team | Ford Sierra RS Cosworth>Ford Sierra Cosworth RS 4x4 | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | 22nd | 12 | |||||||||||||
! Subaru Rally Team Europe | ! Subaru Legacy RS | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | ||||||||||||||||
! Subaru Rally Team Europe | ! Subaru Legacy RS | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | ! 11th | ! 25 | |||||||||
rowspan=2 | !rowspan=2 | ! Subaru Legacy RS | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | 7th | 38 | |||||||||||
! Subaru Impreza 555 | bgcolor="#DFDFDF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | ||||||||||||||||
rowspan=2 | ! SMS | Ford Escort RS Cosworth | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | 9th | 28 | |||||||||||
BP Ford World Rally Team>Ford Motor Co | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | ||||||||||||||||
BP Ford World Rally Team>Ford Motor Co | ! Ford Escort RS Cosworth | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | ! - | ! 0 | ||||||||||||||
! Motorsport Consultancy | ! Ford Escort WRC | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | ! - | ! 0 | ||||||||||||||
rowspan=2 | BP Ford World Rally Team>Ford Motor Co | ! Ford Escort WRC | bgcolor="#FFDF9F" | bgcolor="#DFFFDF" | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | 11th | 6 | |||||||||||
Subaru World Rally Team>555 Subaru World Rally Team | Subaru Impreza WRC>Subaru Impreza WRC 98 | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | ||||||||||||||||
! Bozian Racing | ! Peugeot 206 WRC | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | ! - | ! 0 |
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