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10 mins right into a phone interview, Isaac Hanson had to be stopped.
The eldest of the brothers/band-mates from the late-'90s pop trio Hanson was going on as well as on, talking passionately about Africa. He and his brothers had just returned each day earlier from their latest humanitarian trek to the continent.
"We get home incredibly inspired every time," Isaac said. He even postulated, "Helping Africa may be the mission that may make our generation great,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], like fighting world wars did with our grandparents' and great- grandparents' generations."
That's when he got interrupted: "Would anybody believe this really is among the guys behind 'MMMBop' talking,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]?"
Yes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], indeed, the Hanson brothers of Oklahoma have grown up.
The 3 of the siblings, ages 22 to 27, are family men now. Middle brother Taylor ("the pretty one") has three kids. Even little drummer boy Zac -- whose cherubic face and wiseacre smile made it impossible to hate the band a decade ago -- is definitely an expectant father.
More startling is always that the Brothers H also have a pretty fertile music career.
Hanson's latest album,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "The Walk," rose to No. 1 in Internet album sales and No. 4 about the independent albums chart in Billboard. Heck if it's not a very good record,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], too. Put it on alongside 2007 releases by the similarly poppy, R rock acts Maroon 5 and Matchbox Twenty,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and let me know Hanson's doesn't stick in your head the most.
An alt-rock station in Chicago,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Q101, recently turned heads by spinning the trio's single,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "Great Divide," without naming the act. It became the No. 1 requested song.
Another sign Hanson has turned out cool: Its first-ever gig in the beginning Avenue is tonight.
"We've always believed in our music,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Isaac said. "We said in the very beginning that we're within this for the long haul." He laughed. "I'm glad other medication is beginning to view it our way."
Tulsa to Africa
One of the keys to emerging from the teen-pop shadow was when the band gave up on major labels and started its independent record company in 2004.
A little-known tidbit about Hanson: The trio is discovered at the perennially hip and trendy South by Southwest Music Conference in Austin, Texas, where it serenaded record execs in the pub.
The brothers' "MMMBop"-buoyed 1997 debut CD, "Middle of Nowhere," continued to market 4 million copies on Mercury Records. When Hanson made its second studio album,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], though,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the label experienced consolidation and much more or less hung the band out to dry.
"We essentially finished up on a hip-hop label," Isaac said. "Imagine you're 20 years old and trying to inform a bunch of hip-hop executives how you can market your pop/rock band."
Steering their own ship nowadays,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the brothers turned to Africa during the making of "The Walk."
Several songs were inspired by trips to Mozambique and Nigeria, including "Great Divide," which features a chorus of children recorded at an orphanage. Hanson issued the single online like a benefit track for African AIDS relief. Since that time,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], this guitar rock band did closely with Tom's shoe company, donating footwear to African children.
The humanitarian work is only one reason Hanson is being taken more seriously.
"We can always be young," Isaac said,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "but we aren't exactly green anymore. We've done enough -- making enough mistakes -- to pretty well understand how to guide our careers ourselves."
As the music biz is difficult, the celebrity/tabloid side of teen stardom can be even rougher. "But for us,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the music has always been everything. We weren't just guys who started a band to party and score chicks."
That doesn't mean they didn't score chicks.
"We actually did all meet our wives at shows," he admitted with a laugh, "but that was only a nice byproduct to be within the band."
One thing you won't catch the Hanson siblings laughing about is the single that made them all famous.
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