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Zac, Taylor and Isaac were raised on music from the 1950s and 1960s and grew to love it. The boys started singing together almost as soon as Zac could talk. In 1992, the boys' parents realized their children had a special talent and helped them to make their first independent album, " Boomerang". The album was sold at live shows the boys held—basically just them singing a cappella verisons of the old songs they were raised on. As the boys and their talents grew, so did their interest in the pursuit of a musical career. Isaac, who had always idolized Chuck BerryCharles Edward Berry (born October 18, 1926), better known as Chuck Berry is an American guitarist, singer and composer. Berry was born in St. Louis, Missouri and was the first member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ( 1986). He received Kennedy Center H, took up guitarnylon strings. steel strings and more guide dots on the fretboard. A guitar is a stringed musical instrument played with the fingers or a plectrum ( guitar pick). The sound is produced by vibrating strings. Guitars have a body (which is hollow for acousti. Taylor (who along with Ike had taken classical piano lessons) went to the keyboardsThe musical keyboard also known as the piano keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers on a musical instrument which produce notes. Many musical instruments which have a key for each note lay them out in the standard way shown in the graphic: the and Zac got a set of drumFor other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). A drum is a musical percussion instrument, consisting of a membrane which is usually stretched taut over a cylindrical tube that is open at the other end. The membrane is struck, either with the hand ors from a friend's attic. The boys released a second independent record called " MMMBop". Then, one day during a summer show the boys ran into the man that would later sign them onto the MercuryMercury Records was a record label founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1945 by Irving Green, Berle Adams and Arthur Talmadge. They were a major force in jazz and blues, classical music, rock and roll, and country music recordings. Early in their history, Merc record label. In March of 19971997 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Reef''. Events January January 3 NBC's Today Show Bryant Gumbel signs off for the last time January 8 Mister Rogers receives a star on t, the boys' first professional album, " Middle of NowhereMiddle of Nowhere is the third album by American pop/ rock group Hanson, and the first to be released on a major label. Released in 1997, it features slicker songwriting and production than their previous indie efforts Boomerang and MMMBop''. Although the" was relased. The boys also released an album called " Snowed In," in 1997, which contains Christmas songs. They then released another called " This Time Around" in 2001. In 2004, Hanson released their newest album " Underneath ."