Profile
Tanya Tucker
Musician
Female
Born
Oct 10, 1958
Age
54
Hometown
United States
Genres
Country music
Instruments
Acoustic Guitar +...
Performed With
La Costa
Record Label
Liberty Records
Tanya Denise Tucker is a female American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience… Read More
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Romance
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Anjelica LewisDated
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Jerry LaseterDated
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Ben ReedDated
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1958
Birth
Born on October 10, 1958.
1969
10 Years Old
Tucker made her debut with Mel Tillis, who was so impressed by her talent that he invited her onstage to perform. In 1969 the family moved to Las Vegas, where she regularly performed.
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TEENAGE
1972
13 Years Old
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Her second single, "Love's the Answer," also became a Top Ten hit later in 1972.
1973
14 Years Old
Tucker's third single, "What's Your Mama's Name," became her first number one hit in the spring of 1973.
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In 1975, she signed with MCA Records, where she had a string of hit singles that ran into the late '70s.
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1978
19 Years Old
In 1978, she decided to radically change her image and cross over to rock with her TNT album.
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TWENTIES
By the end of the '70s, her sales were declining — in 1980 she only had two hits.
1981
22 Years Old
Note: In 1981 Tucker was one of the various artists featured on the album "Sesame Country" which won the Grammy Award for Best Recording for Children.
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Despite having a Top 10 hit in late 1982 from her first and only Arista album Changes, she struggled to have her music played on the radio.
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1984
25 Years Old
In 1984 and 1985, she had no singles on the country charts.
In 1986 Tucker signed with Capitol Records.
In 1988 she had three No. 1 country singles: "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love" (with Paul Davis and Paul Overstreet), "If It Don't Come Easy" and "Strong Enough to Bend."
THIRTIES
1994
35 Years Old
In 1994, "Hangin' On" was her last Top 5 hit, as well as her last Top 10 hit for a while.
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1996
37 Years Old
In 1996 she was one of the Top 10 most-played artists of the year, and that time Capitol Records' biggest signed female artist.
In 1997 she returned to the Top 10 on the country charts for the last time with the hit, "Little Things", which peaked at No. 9.
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FORTIES
1999
40 Years Old
Just days before their 1999 wedding, Tucker cancelled the ceremony when she discovered she was pregnant with her third child, Laseter's daughter Layla LaCosta (25 June 1999), saying she did not want to walk down the aisle pregnant in her wedding dress.
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In 2002 Tucker founded Tuckertime Records, allowing her to retain control of the recording process and release the singles she wished to release.
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In 2005 she released an album, Live at Billy Bob's Texas.
FIFTIES
2009
50 Years Old
Tanya's "Lonesome Town" project was put on hold to do the first cover album of her career, My Turn, which was released 30 June 2009 and placed No. 27 on the billboard country charts.
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