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Tanya Tucker: Country Music
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From hillbilly Lolita to unrepentant single mother, Tanya Tucker has confounded critics and naysayers from the beginning of her career. Her antics (which most recently have included flashing her breasts in public) would have ended her career long ago, if she didn't have a smoldering voice that's among the best in country music when she gets the material and the production to do it justice.
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November 27, 2006--Boe Tucker, a country music manager who was the guiding force in his daughter Tanya Tucker’s career, died November 23 after battling lung cancer, reports The Tennessean. Boe (or "Beau," as Tanya preferred) was 79.
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In 1973, Tanya was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine with the headline reading, "HI, I'M TANYA TUCKER, I'M 15, YOU'RE GONNA HEAR FROM ME." And hear from her we did. She became known as the "Bad Girl of Country Music" which she proudly admits was appropriate at the time. "It just meant I like to have fun and get crazy every now and then," Tanya states. By her early twenties, just when Tanya had the world in the palm of her hands, she became involved in a love affair with another celebrity twice her age (Glen Campbell) and was living a life filled with drugs and alcohol.
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By now, Tucker was a 20-year veteran in country music, even though she was only in her mid-30s. In 1994, "Hangin' On" was her last Top 5 hit, as well as her last Top 10 hit for a while. That year she performed at the half-time show at Super Bowl XXVIII. However, Tucker was able to stay in the Country Top 40 this time. In 1996, Tucker 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 #9.
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Tucker continued making hits into 1992, with "Two Sparrows and a Hurricane", as well as quite a few other Top 10 Country hits. "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane" was named by the Academy of Country Music the "Video of the Year". By now, Tucker was a 20-year veteran in country music, even though she was only in her mid-30s. In 1994, "Hangin' On" was her last Top 5 hit, as well as her last Top 10 hit for a while. That year she performed at the half-time show at Super Bowl XXVIII. However, Tucker was able to stay in the Country Top 40 this time. In 1996, Tucker was one of the Top 10 most played artists of the year, and that time Capitol Records' biggest signed female artist.
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The first ever country music star to grace the cover of Rolling Stone, the charismatic Tanya Tucker first shot to fame at 13, scoring 8 number one singles before she could drink in pubs. Still treading the boards thirty years later, she ... plays mum to her three kids. Tanya may serve dinner on the tour bus, but she always makes time to help the kids with their homework and support their fledgling country music aspirations.
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