Taylor Hanson

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Jordan Taylor Hanson
Background information
Birth name	Jordan Taylor Hanson
Born	March 14, 1983 (age 24)
Origin	Tulsa, Oklahoma
Years active	1992–present
Label(s)	Mercury Records (1995-1999) Island Records (1999-2003) 3CG Records (2003-Present)

Jordan Taylor Hanson (born 14 March 1983 in Tulsa, Oklahoma)^[1] is one of the singers in the band, Hanson. He also plays keyboard, bongos, and piano.

[edit] Biography

Taylor is the second oldest of seven children. He and his older brother, Isaac, started Hanson in 1992. Isaac was eleven, Taylor nine, and later, a then six year old Zac joined the group. They performed as an acapella group outside of different clubs in their hometown of Tulsa. In May of 1997, the band released their first studio album, Middle of Nowhere, on a major record label, Mercury Records. The first single, "MMMBop", made it to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Taylor met his wife, Natalie Anne Bryant, after a performance in Atlanta, Georgia in September 2000, during Hanson's This Time Around Tour, at the age of seventeen. They were introduced by one of the band's roadies. After dating for two years, nineteen year old Taylor and Natalie, (18), were married on 8 June 2002 at the Ida Cason Chapel in Pine Mountain, Georgia. The couple have three children: Jordan Ezra (31 October 2002), Penelope Anne (19 April 2005), and River Samuel (4 September 2006).

His siblings include Clark Isaac Hanson, Zachary Walker Hanson, Jessica Grace Hanson, Avery Laurel Hanson, Joshua Mackenzie Hanson, and Zoë Genevieve Hanson.

His Parents are Diana Hanson and Walker Hanson.

He is a co-founder and co-CEO of 3CG Records along with his brothers Isaac Hanson and Zac Hanson.