Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it was the first of three brothers who, in 1992, inspired artists such as Aretha Franklin, Elvis Presley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry, he began rehearsing everything he learned during the week in piano and singing classes in his home garage. However, the garage of the house quickly knocked him out, and soon after trying it out at a festival in his area, it was this kick that got him to the next step. Within a few years he recorded two albums, which were released independently: boomerang came out in 1995, and mmmbop One year later.

But it wasn’t until the following year that everything exploded. Thanks to the support of the Mercury/Polygram Records label, the Hanson brothers released the album. middle of nowhere Including ‘MMMBop’, the pop song that made them the boy band of the time. Since then, when his career had already started, he started fighting to stay in those positions despite the passage of time. They continued touring after tour as well as releasing albums such as around this timeTrying to move forward in that world without losing his musical identity.

The Hansons celebrate 30 years of career this 2022, releasing 24 albums

However, the truck of success came to a halt. This was from the year 2000, and until 2004, the band had not released a single album., they came to write about 80 themes, but nothing could open his struggle with his label. “There were people who didn’t understand us, those were hard times where we couldn’t express ourselves the way we wanted to,” Taylor explains. The band was ‘stuck’ in the merger of the two companies, thus leaving them in a sub-label that did not agree with the type of music they wanted to release.

After years of frustration and even debate, the brothers reinvented their concept of success and took the risk of taking the leap. For this reason he created his own record label, 3CG Records, an abbreviation for 3 Car Garage, in reference to the location he used as a recording studio before becoming famous. that’s how they worked belowalbum in which In the first month it sold 37,500 copies in the United States, a figure with which they reached #1 in the Billboard rankings as an independent album., His decision allowed him to release new albums with his label such as: walk (2007)shout it out (2010), Anthem (2013), it’s christmas at last (2017), everywhere in between (2017) You string theory (2018).

Since then, the brothers knew how to keep themselves in constant evolution and be present in the current music landscape. Thus, One Hit Wonder became one of the most successful bands in the history of pop music, marking an even era. To the point that he has his own day in his homeland. Tulsa celebrates Hanson Day on May 6, which has been declared Band Day by Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating. Although it was a tribute to the year 1997, fans of the band carried on the tradition.