Don Henson (born September 19, 1973), known professionally as Jeremy Jordan, is an American singer and actor from Hammond, Indiana.
Biography
Jordan's real name is Don Henson.[1] He was born September 19, 1973,[1] and his mother gave custody of him to his father, who later married another woman and had four more children, all of whom he placed in Mooseheart Child City (an orphanage) after his wife died from leukemia.[1]
Once they got to the orphanage, he and his brothers and sisters were separated and every year he spent there, from the third to eleventh grade, he had a different set of houseparents, some of them very violent.[1][2]
Jordan wanted to get involved in movies and sign with a talent agency in Chicago, but was forbidden since the orphanage was in Mooseheart (near North Aurora), forty miles away.[1] When he was seventeen, before Thanksgiving 1991, he moved to Chicago to stay with a friend's parents. After a fight he was evicted from the house where he was living and ended up homeless,[1] living in the subway until he met his manager Peter Schivarelli. He then signed a record deal with his record company.[1]
In 1993, Jordan released Try My Love on Giant Records. The album yielded the international hit singles, "The Right Kind of Love" (#5 Billboard Hot 100 Airplay, #14 Billboard Hot 100 Singles, #4 Billboard Top 40 Mainstream, #22 Billboard Rhythmic Top 40),[3][4] produced and written by Lotti Golden, Tommy Faragher & Robbie Nevil, and "Wannagirl" (#11 Billboard Top 40 Mainstream, #24 Billboard Rhythmic Top 40, #28 Billboard Hot 100).[3][5][6]
Additionally, "My Love is Good Enough" and "Try My Love" were featured in the film Airborne. "The Right Kind of Love" music video was featured during the end credits of Beverly Hills, 90210 and was also on the television series' soundtrack.
Top 100 peaks to December 2010: Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 149.
^Jordan, Jeremy (1994). "Jeremy Jordan (1994's résumé)" (Press release). Innovative Artists. Since then, Jeremy released his debut smash single "The Right Kind of Love," from the Gold Beverly Hills 90210 soundtrack. This helped to launch his singing career with two more smash singles from Jeremy's album Try My Love. His album sold more than 400,000 copies across the world.
