Jordan Knight

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Jordan Knight (2011)
Jordan Knight (2011)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Jordan Knight
  US 29 06/12/1999 (16 weeks)
Unfinished
  US 48 06/18/2011 (1 week)
Nick & Knight (with Nick Carter )
  US 24 09/20/2014 (1 week)
Singles
Give it to you
  DE 61 07/26/1999 (7 weeks)
  UK 5 10/16/1999 (12 weeks)
  US 10 04/03/1999 (20 weeks)

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 the youngest of six children. The son of Canadian parents, Rev. Allan Knight and social worker Marlene Putman, grew up in Dorchester , a neighborhood of Boston with high crime and drug trafficking . Since the mother regularly took foster children into the family, up to 20 people lived in the house at times. At the age of 18, Knight, who had both Canadian and US citizenship, opted for the latter.

Knight, whose parents divorced during his youth , first attended Roxbury School in Boston and later moved to Thayer Academy , a private high school . As a child he sang in the 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 special training for boys with musical talent.

In 1984, at the age of 14, Knight became the second youngest member of the boy band New Kids on the Block, with whom he enjoyed worldwide success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The band split in 1994 and reunited in 2008.

In 1999 Knight released his first solo album , which received the US gold record . The album includes the top ten hit Give It to You , which went platinum . Health problems followed. Knight processed the most successful hits of his former band on the album Jordan Knight Performs New Kids on the Block - The Remix Album in 2005 . In 2005 he released the EP The Fix . The following year the album Love Songs was created

Knight is married and has two sons.

Discography (solo)

Albums

  • Jordan Knight (April 6, 1999), Interscope Records
  • Jordan Knight Performs New Kids on the Block - The Remix Album (March 30, 2004), Empire Musicwerks.Com/Universal
  • Love Songs (September 12, 2006), Element One
  • Unfinished (May 31, 2011), JK Music
  • Nick & Knight (with Nick Carter as Nick & Knight , September 2014)

EPs

  • The Fix (October 11, 2005), Madacy

Singles

  • Give It to You (1999)
  • I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man (2000) (Author: Prince )
  • Where Is Your Heart Tonight (2005)
  • Say Goodbye ( duet with Debbie Gibson ) (2006)
  • Let's Go Higher (2011)
  • Stingy (featuring Donnie Wahlberg ) (2011)
  • One More Time (with Nick Carter as Nick & Knight ) (July 15, 2014)

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  1. ↑ Jordan Knight in the German charts / chart data ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chartsurfer.de
  2. ^ British Hit Singles & Albums , 18th Edition, Guinness World Records Limited 2005, ISBN 9781904994008
  3. ↑ US singles: Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2006. Billboard Books, Menomonee Falls WI 2007, ISBN 978-0-7535-2245-5 . / US albums: Joel Whitburn : The Billboard Albums. 6th edition. Record Research, Menomonee Falls WI 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .

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personal data
SURNAME Knight, Jordan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knight, Jordan Nathaniel Marcel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Worcester , Massachusetts, USA