Jordan Knight
Jordan Nathaniel Marcel Knight ( born May 17, 1970 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American singer. He is a member of the boy band New Kids on the Block.
Life
Knight was born as the youngest of six children. The son of Canadian parents, Rev. Allan Knight and Marlene Putman social worker, grew up in Dorchester, a neighborhood of Boston with a high crime rate and drug trafficking. Then the mother resumed regular foster children in the family, lived for a time up to 20 people in the house. At the age of 18 years, Knight, who vorwies both the Canadian and the U.S. citizenship decided for the latter.
Knight, whose parents divorced during his youth, first attended the Roxbury School in Boston and changed in the course of Thayer Academy, a private high school. As a child, he sang in school and church choir. He also mastered breakdancing. Together with his brother Jonathan Knight, he was accepted at Princeton University, where the Royal School of Church Music offered specialized training for boys with musical talent.
1984 Knight was at the age of 14 years, the second youngest member of the boy band New Kids on the Block, with whom he who, in the early 1990s became globally successful end of 1980. The band split in 1994 and closed in 2008 back together.
Published in 1999, Knight released his first solo album, which received the gold record in the U.S.. The album features the Top Ten hit Give It to You, who scored platinum status. This was followed by health problems. The most successful hits of his former band processed Knight in 2005 on the album Jordan Knight Performs New Kids on the Block - The Remix Album. In 2005, he released the EP The Fix. The following year, the album was Love Songs
Knight is married and the father of two sons.
Discography ( Solo)
Albums
- Jordan Knight (6 April 1999), Interscope Records
- Jordan Knight Performs New Kids on the Block - The Remix Album (30 March 2004), Empire Musicwerks.Com / Universal
- Love Songs (12th September 2006), Element One
- Unfinished (31 May 2011), JK Music
EPs
- The Fix (11 October 2005), Madacy
Singles
- Give It to You (1999)
- I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (2000)
- Where Is Your Heart Tonight ( 2005)
- Say Goodbye ( duet with Debbie Gibson ) (2006 )
- Let's Go Higher ( 2011)
- Stingy (featuring Donnie Wahlberg ) (2011 )