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Jeff Hanson is an artist and producer manager, A&R consultant and founder and chief of the Silent Majority Group label. He is the former manager of Creed, Paramore and Sevendust, In 2006 he set up the independent Orlando, Florida-based label Silent Majority Group, which is now home to Framing Hanley, Candlebox and Tantric amongst others.

Career

Hanson discovered Creed in December 1996 when they played live at Floyd's Music Store in Tallahassee, Florida.^[1] At the time the band was unknown and their set-list contained mostly covers and two original songs. Jeff signed Creed to his artist management company, JHMP, soon after he asked friend John Kurzweg, to produce the band's first record and according to Jeff, in an interview with HitQuarters, the album cost only $6,000 to make and eventually sold around 6 million copies.^[1] Creed went on to sell over 35 million records and millions of tickets worldwide. During this time, Jeff Hanson served as executive producer of both The Scorpion King and Scream 3 soundtracks. Jeff also served as A&R consultant for Island Def Jam during Lyor Cohen’s tenure in the early 2000s.^[2] Shortly after forming JHMP Jeff also took on artists: Sevendust, Alterbridge, Virgos Merlot and Full Devil Jacket.

As part of Jeff's simultaneous continued association with the CCM sector of the business(Commercial Christian music business) Jeff curated the musical content for Jesus Daily Group, the most interactive Facebook page in the world www.facebook.com/Jesusdaily. At Jesus Daily he A&R'd two compilations for Jesus Daily Group... "an E-Pop Christmas" and "A Classic Christmas" that included numerous established and emerging Christian artists including Wintley Phipps, Charles Billingsley, Everlife, The Tractors, and Gary Chapman. Hanson also produced a two-hour concert special that aired on TBN's 'Praise The Lord" to support the compilations.

In 2012 Jeff and Paramore EP producer Peter Thornton opened "Plush" studios in Orlando where he recruited , recorded and developed future multi platinum artist Chris Daughtry. Chris went on to appear on American Idol where he placed 4th and went on to sign with RCA / 19 Records. Later that year Jeff Hanson signed two active rock artists Farewell 2 Fear and Blacklite District to the SMG label and the JHMP management company. Both reached number one on Sirius / XM's "Octane" Channel. Blacklite District with "Take me to the grave","With me now". and Farewell 2 Fear with "Fire". Farewell 2 Fear gained popularity when their cover version of Rhianna's "Diamonds" was featured on the Howard Stern show. Blacklite District has gone on to stream over 100 million streams of different tracks mainly from their multiple associations with Asian Anime Youtube pages. JHMP then signed platinum-selling rock band, Saving Abel, and also helped the act to form their own label Tennessippi Whiskey Records. He next signed the Scranton, PA artist Death Valley Dreams. The first single "Words Like Fire"appeared on 25 major market alternative stations. The album "Lust In The Modern World" was selected to appear in numerous playlists on Apple Music and Spotify platforms and was listed as one of the top Rock / Alternative albums of 2016 by Apple Music.

In March of 2016 while appearing at the Florida Music Festival as a panelist Jeff Hanson found out that he had been diagnosed with "Stage 4/B" Tonsil cancer that spread to numerous locations and lymph nodes. He spent the remainder of 2016 having radiation, chemo and multiple surgeries to remove the Cancer and lymph nodes and was forced to take a leave of absence until December 2016 when he was determined to be "in remission". Shortly after his Cancer battle Jeff Hanson while pondering his future, an old friend Trevor Fletcher who manages Criteria Studios in Miami, sent him a demo from 17 year old Nashville alternative/pop artist and producer Brother Sundance. Jeff fell in love with the demos and due to his post cancer limitations recruited industry veteran and former Mc Gathy Promotions EVP Mark Fisher to assist Rebecca Hanson in the management and promotion of the artist and Brother Sundance released his debut EP 'Honey',on August 11th, 2017 through Silent Majority Group. Within two months of the signing of Brother Sundance the artist was named Apple Music's "New Artist of the Week". In June 2018 Silent Majority Group LLC entered into a partnership with Warner Brothers Records to re-release the "Honey" EP and four subsequent records.

References

1. ^¹{{cite web |url= http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_Jeff_Hanson_Interview.html |title= Interview With Jeff Hanson |publisher= HitQuarters|date=13 Sep 2010 |accessdate= 5 Oct 2010}}
2. ^¹²{{cite web|url=http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_music_blog/2007/05/jeff_hanson_new.html |title=Silent Majority Group joined WMG’s Independent Label Group, |publisher=Orlando Sentinel |date=8 May 2007 |accessdate=5 Oct 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023223659/http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_music_blog/2007/05/jeff_hanson_new.html |archivedate=23 October 2012 |df= }}
3. ^¹{{cite web |url=http://www.hitquarters.com/index.php3?page=intrview/opar/intrview_JeffHanson_Interview_Part2.html |title=Interview With Jeff Hanson (part two) |publisher=HitQuarters|date=20 Sep 2010 |accessdate=5 Oct 2010}}