//  Origin:  Iowa

//  Genres:  Adult Alternative

//  Years Active:  1996- Present

//  Website:  www.jayhansonmusic.com

Short Bio

Jay Hanson is a singer, songwriter and musician who has been creating professionally for over twenty years. 

A Berklee College of Music graduate, he has worked in the recording studio with artists ranging from Snoop Dogg to Larry The Cable Guy and clients such as National Public Radio, ESPN and ABC's "Grey's Anatomy", and shared performances with music notables such as Hootie & the Blowfish, Cake, Taylor Dayne and David Lee Roth. He has also lent his voice-over, singing and script supervising talents to a number of DIC Entertainment's cartoon series. Jay also created original music and sound effects for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, I Am My Own Wife and Grounded at Omaha Playhouse, for which he won a Omaha Entertainment & Arts Award for Best Sound Design.

As a resident artist, he was a performer and musician with Rave On Productions for thirteen years, where he appeared in Yesterday & Today: the Interactive Beatles Experience and Rave On! The Buddy Holly Experience.   His recent performance credits also include starring as "Willy Wonka" in Willy Wonka and "Guy" in the Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova musical Once for which he won the Mary Peckham Award for Best Actor in a Musical.