Tanner was born in Tyler, TX and currently lives in the downtown area of Tyler with his wife Kirsten.
Tanner has been actively involved in church worship since an early age. He grew up singing with his mother in church, playing bass and electric guitar on the middle school worship team, and post high-school he started a christian band with his best friend and then traveled around the country playing worship events.
He graduated from Tyler Junior College with an Associate’s Degree in Graphic Design and Photography. After graduating from college he started playing electric guitar at Dayspring on occasion started to attend the church in 2015.
Tanner has served in different musical positions on the worship team in Tyler, and when he wasn’t playing he engineered the audio for Dayspring’s livestream service.
In addition to his work at Dayspring Tanner has worked as an Audio Engineer for PC Productions since 2017.
Tanner now serves as the Assistant Director of Worship and Creative Arts here at Dayspring, and in addition to assisting Aaron he serves as the worship director of the Flint Campus.