Taylor Hanson
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Jordan Taylor Hanson (born March 14, 1983) is an American musician best known as a member of the eponymous pop rock band Hanson.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.
Early life
Hanson was born in Jenks, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa, the second of seven children birthed to Clarke Walker Hanson and Diana Frances (née Lawyer) Hanson. He has partial Danish ancestry.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
May 6 has been declared Hanson Day in Tulsa in honor of the release of Middle of Nowhere. Each year, the band hosts concerts and celebrations in Tulsa, and fans travel from around the world to attend.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2003, Taylor, Isaac and Zac Hanson co-founded 3CG Records.
It was announced in early 2009 that Taylor Hanson, along with former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Cheap Trick drummer Bun E. Carlos and Fountains of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger, had formed a new band called Tinted Windows. The group played their first publicized gig at SXSW in Austin, Texas on March 20, 2009, and their debut album was released on April 21, 2009.<ref>Iha, Carlos, Hanson, Schlesinger Form Band</ref><ref>Tinted Windows to Release Debut Album April 21St Template:Webarchive</ref> Adam Schlesinger died in 2020 from COVID-19. A few months after Schlesinger's death, Hanson revealed that a Tinted Windows reunion had been in the works.<ref>Taylor Hanson Says Tinted Windows Reunion Was in the Works Before Adam Schlesinger's Death </ref>
Personal life
On June 8, 2002, Hanson married Natalie Anne Bryant, whom he met in 2000.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> They have seven children; sons born in 2002, 2006, 2008, and 2018<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and daughters in 2005, 2012, and 2020.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2014, Taylor Hanson founded Food on the Move, a Tulsa-based volunteer organization that fights food insecurity in the community. It offers fresh produce, prepared meals, and access to local resources and health services.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2021, as part of The Sound of Black Wall Street musical project,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Taylor Hanson contributed to an album commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre. His non-Hanson solo song, "Sound Like Joy", was recorded at historic Vernon AME Church in the heart of Tulsa's Black Wall Street.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
Discography
with Hanson
with Tinted Windows
- Tinted Windows (2009)
Solo
- "Sound Like Joy" — The Black Wall Street Music Project Album with Various Artists (2022)
Guest Appearances
- "On The Way Down - 20th Anniversary" - Ryan Cabrera, AJ McLean, Joey Fatone, Drake Bell, Walk the Moon, and Nash Overstreet (Non-album single) (2025)
- "Burnout" - Scary Kids Scaring Kids and Lacey Sturm (Maps Written in Water) (2025)
References
External links
- Pages with broken file links
- 1983 births
- American child singers
- 21st-century American multi-instrumentalists
- American male pop singers
- American pop rock singers
- American male singer-songwriters
- American rock songwriters
- Living people
- Musicians from Tulsa, Oklahoma
- American tambourine players
- Singer-songwriters from Oklahoma
- 21st-century American singer-songwriters
- 21st-century American drummers
- 21st-century American male singers
- Tinted Windows (band) members
- 20th-century American keyboardists
- Hanson (band)
- American child pop musicians
- Child rock musicians
- American people of Danish descent
- Drummers from Oklahoma
- American male drummers