Name:Zachary Walker Hanson
Birthdate:October 22, 1985
Role: Drums, percussion, vocals, big brother to four.
Zac is the youngest member of Hanson (he makes up 1/3 of the group:) and one of the middle
children in the Hanson family. He plays the drums (quite well, might I add) and adds harmony to
the group. He doesn't sing as much as his brothers, and I have a hypothesis why this might be:
I think it would be incredibly difficult to maintain a steady voice when your arms are pounding insanely
hard on pieces of cowhide, which means that performing live is difficult for singing drummers. Therefore,
he sings mainly back-up and if he does have a lead song ("Man From Milwaukee" and "I Wish That I Was There" are two
good examples) the group does them a capella. That's just a theory. I've never
tried to sing while playing the drums though. His personality would be described (by me) as ecclectic. I mean,
when Hanson first came out, he was regarded as insanely hyper and jumpy all of the time, which is physically
impossible. But I think he's a lot more calm now. He is outrageously funny (see quotations below) and gets along
well with his family. All around a great guy.
Quotes
"My official title is "Father."
" They steal our basketball. Some lady comes back and she's like, "My daughter stole this, I'm sorry."
"I'd give a girl tapes of the Weather Channel."
"See, the good thing about this is girls like to play with my hair since I have so much."
"We're from the Midwest, so we're "meatatarians."
"I prefer frozen beef jerky on a popsicle stick and you just lick it! It's great."
"We share a room. It smells gooooood."
"There's a crodle hunter, and he's insane. [in a accent] '...I have here a snake in the wild...four inches from my face...I will surely die..."
"The kids have their heads on their shoulders. It's the parents that make everything go screwy. There's a mom with six kids in a van, and she's driving 90 down the highway, chasing your van. You're going 'You're going to kill all those kids.' Or there's some guy and his daughter, and you're like 'We can't sign anything, we've gotta get to a show, and he's like (assumes the voice of Satan as channeled through Linda Blair in The Exorcist) 'Nooo! This is my daughter!'"
