Jeff Hanson (music executive)

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.

Hanson discovered Creed in December 1996 when they played live at Floyd's Music Store in Tallahassee, Florida. 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 Jeff, in an interview with HitQuarters, the album cost only $6,000 to make and eventually sold around 6 million copies. 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 served as A&R consultant for Island Def Jam during Lyor Cohen’s tenure in the early 2000s.

Between 2001 and 2004 Jeff also took on artists: Sevendust, Alterbridge, Virgos Merlot and Full Devil Jacket. During this time, Jeff Hanson released his first independent label with artist Storewide B in a partnership with Gotee / EMI and achieved multiple Christian Rock top 10 hits.

In 2002, Jeff was awarded Orlando's Leukemia and Lymphoma Society "Man of the Year" award for raising a significant contribution for the children's charity.

In 2003, Jeff was asked to manage the, then, 14-year-old Hayley Williams Williams was then taken to Atlantic Records and signed to the label by Jason Flom.

In 2004, Jeff Hanson created the first new artist 360 deal together with entertainment lawyers Kent Marcus and Jim Zumwalt between Paramore and Atlantic Records. Paramore.

In 2006, Jeff Hanson founded and was the chief A&R representative for the Silent Majority Group label. He was joined by radio program director Rick Schmidt and fianceé Rebecca Foulke.

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