Taylor Hanson

This article is about the American musician. For the American soccer player, see Taylor Hansen.

"Jordan Hanson" redirects here. For the mayor, see Mitchell, South Dakota.

Jordan Taylor Hanson (born March 14, 1983) is an American musician best known as a member of the eponymous pop rock band Hanson.^[1] He was born in Jenks, Oklahoma, a suburb of Tulsa. 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.

Taylor Hanson
Hanson in 2017
Background information
Birth name	Jordan Taylor Hanson
Born	(1983-03-14) March 14, 1983 (age 42) Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.
Genres	Power pop pop rock
Occupation	Musician
Instruments	Vocals keyboards percussion drums guitar harmonica
Years active	1992–present
Labels	Mercury Island 3CG S-Curve
Spouse	Natalie Anne Bryant ​ (m. 2002)​

Early life

Hanson was born in a suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the second of seven children birthed to Clarke Walker Hanson and Diana Frances (née Lawyer) Hanson. He has partial Danish ancestry.^[2]

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.^[3]

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.^[4]

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.^[5][6] 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.^[7]

Personal life

Hanson in concert in Madrid, 2000

On June 8, 2002, Hanson married Natalie Anne Bryant, whom he met in 2000.^[8] They have seven children; sons born in 2002, 2006, 2008, and 2018^[9][10][11] and daughters in 2005, 2012, and 2020.^{[12][13][14][15]}

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.^[16]

In 2021, as part of The Sound of Black Wall Street musical project,^[17] 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.^[18]

Discography

with Hanson

Main article: Hanson discography

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)