Jordan Taylor Hanson (born March 14, 1983) is an American musician best known as a member of the eponymous pop rock band Hanson. He sings both lead and back-up vocals, and plays keyboard, percussion (including drums, bongos and the tambourine), guitar, harmonica, and piano. Hanson was also lead singer of the supergroup Tinted Windows.
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Early life
Hanson was born the second of seven children to Diana Frances (née Lawyer) Hanson and Clarke Walker Hanson in Jenks, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa. He has partial Danish ancestry.
Music career
Taylor Hanson sings and plays keyboard and piano with the band Hanson. He and older brother Isaac started the band with younger sibling Zac in 1992, and were initially known as The Hanson Brothers (later changed to just Hanson). At the time, Isaac was eleven, Taylor was nine, and Zac was six. They performed as an a cappella group outside clubs in Tulsa. On May 6, 1997, Hanson released their first major studio album, Middle of Nowhere, on Mercury Records. The first single, "MMMBop", hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.