Jeremy Jordan | |
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Birth name | Don Henson |
Born | Hammond, Indiana, U.S. | September 19, 1973
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Occupation(s) | Actor, singer |
Years active | 1992–2011 |
Labels | Giant |
Don Henson (born September 19, 1973), known professionally as Jeremy Jordan, is an American singer and actor from Hammond, Indiana.
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.
A remix album, Jeremy The Remix, was released to overseas markets in late 1993. Since 1994, Jordan has transitioned into acting and has appeared in a number of films, including Never Been Kissed with Drew Barrymore, Falling Sky with Brittany Murphy, television films like Twisted Desire with Melissa Joan Hart, as well as independent films such as Leaving Las Vegas with Nicolas Cage, Julian Po with Christian Slater, and Nowhere directed by Gregg Araki. [6]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1995 | Live Nude Girls | Jeffery - Greenpeace Boy | |
1995 | Leaving Las Vegas | College Boy #2 | |
1996 | Bio-Dome | Trent | |
1996 | Poolboy | Poolboy | |
1997 | Nowhere | Bart | |
1997 | Julian Po | Bobby | |
1998 | Falling Sky | Vance | |
1999 | Dreamers | Dave Jacobson | |
1999 | Never Been Kissed | Guy Perkins | |
2011 | The Absent | Rob |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1994 | ABC Afterschool Specials | Johnny | "Boys Will Be Boys" |
1996 | Twisted Desire | Nick Ryan | Television film |
1996 | The Drew Carey Show | ||
1996 | Ellen | ||
1997 | Skeletons | Aryan Boy | Television film |
1997 | Gun | Baggy Pants | Episode: "Ricochet" |
1997 | Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground | Boy #2 | Television film |
1999 | Storm of the Century | Billy Soames | 2 episodes |
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales | |||
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US [7] | US Heat [3] | AUS [8] | JPN [9] | |||
Try My Love |
| 176 | 9 | 29 | 31 | |
Where Do We Go From Here [11] |
| — | — | — | — |
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Sales |
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JPN [9] | |||
Jeremy The Remix |
| 70 |
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Year | Title | Peak chart positions | Certification | Album | |||||
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US [12] | US Pop [3] | US Radio [13] | US Rhyt. [14] | AUS [8] | CAN [15] | ||||
1992 | "The Right Kind of Love" | 14 | 4 | 11 | 22 | 5 | 70 |
| Try My Love |
1993 | "Wannagirl" | 28 | 11 | 20 | 24 | 22 | 42 | ||
"Try My Love" | — | — | — | — | 72 | — | |||
1994 | "My Love Is Good Enough" | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1999 | "A Girl Named Happiness (Never Been Kissed)" | — | — | — | — | — | — | Never Been Kissed: Music From The Motion Picture |
"Foolish" is a song by American singer Ashanti. It served as her debut single, the first from her self-titled debut album (2002) and was released by Def Jam Recordings, AJM, and Irv Gotti's Murder Inc. Records. It was written by Ashanti, Etterlene Jordan, Mark DeBarge and Irv Gotti, while production was overseen by Gotti. The song heavily samples DeBarge's "Stay with Me". Due to the inclusion of the sample, Mark DeBarge and Etterlene Jordan are also credited as songwriters. A promotional version of the single called "Unfoolish" features a verse from The Notorious B.I.G. from his song "F--king You Tonight".
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has generic name (help)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.