Full Name: Jordan Taylor Hanson
Nickname: Tay
Age: 17
Birthday: March 14, 1983
Place of birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Eye color: Blue
Weight: over 100 pounds
Favorite Color: Red ("Because red candies taste the best and red makes everything beautiful...")
Favorite Icecream: Strawberry
Favorite Food: Burritos, fish, his mom's brownies, chicken with lemon sauce, steaks, and cheeseburgers with the works, jelly beans, and Cocoa Puffs
Favorite drink: Mug Rootbeer
Favorite TV-shows: Fraiser, Friends, Animaniacs, and Seinfeld
Favorite Music: Chumbawamba, No Doubt, Alanis Morisette, Jewel, Spin Doctors, 50s and 60s music
Favorite Animal (and football team): Dolphins
Favorite Subject: English
Describes himself as: "Intense, athletic, the group's peacemaker."
Bad habit: Drumming his fingertips
Favorite saying: "Cmon"
Crushes: Jennifer Aniston, who plays Rachel in the TV-show "Friends", Pamela Anderson who in his opinion is "an 8 out of 10", and Emma, from the music group Spice Girls
Hobbies: Writing poetry, and drawing cartoons (It's Tay and Zac's artwork we can find inside the CD booklet), and using computers. (a small part of the official Hanson site, Hansonline, was designed by him).
Injuries: a scar on the left side of his face, from when he ran into a glassdoor , and he also has got one on his leg from playing soccer and another on his back from rollarblading. He also broke his arm about two years ago. "I was going down this huge hill on my bike to see a house my parents were going to buy. They were driving up the hill as I was coming down and as I saw the car heading towards me I braked and went straight over the handlebars. I laid in the road while my parents rushed over and picked me up. I looked at my arm and it had just snapped." (He has kept the cast so he can see how big his arm has gotten.)
Talents: He can speak with a British accent
Changes: When recording "Middle Of Nowhere", Tay's voice was changing. "If you listen carefully, you can hear that my voice is four notes lower in the end," says Tay. He's taking voice lessons now.
Personality: a perfectionist, hyper at night, and tends to be shy and flirtatious.
Possible careers: an architect or an interior decorator
Accessories: A cross necklace, and a Jewish star, soccer ball, and a flower necklace.
Money issues: When asked the question what would he buy if he got $20 he said, "I would buy jelly beans, tons and tons of jelly beans"
Shampoo: Herbal Essences
Cologne: Ckbe
Toothbrush: aquamarine colored Colgate toothbrush
Type of keyboard: Kurzweil
Favorite movie: Star Wars and action movies