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Tanya Tucker had her first country hit in 1972, when she was just 13 years old. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a remarkable streak of Top Ten and Top 40 hits. Born in Seminole, Texas, much of Tucker's childhood was spent moving throughout the Southwest as her father pursued construction jobs. At the age of six, she began taking saxophone lessons; two years later, she decided she wanted to sing, and made an auspicious debut with Mel Tillis, who was so impressed by her talents that he invited her onstage to perform. In 1969, Tucker and her family moved to Las Vegas, where she regularly performed. Eventually, she recorded a demo tape that gained the attention of songwriter Dolores Fuller, who sent it to producer Billy Sherrill.
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Produced by Joe Guercio, Tanya Tucker’s Family Christmas tour starts on December 12 and sees her backed by Elvis Presley’s backing band the Imperials. The Country singer is ... planning a tour with the Imperials in 2008.
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Tanya Denise Tucker was born in Seminole, Texas, the youngest of three children. Her father, Jesse "Bo" Tucker, was a heavy equipment operator, and the family moved often as he sought better work. Tanya's early childhood was spent primarily in Wilcox, Arizona, where the only radio station in town played country music. The Tuckers ... went to the concerts of country stars such as Ernest Tubb and Mel Tillis, and Tanya's older sister LaCosta was praised in the family for her vocal abilities. At the age of eight, Tanya told her father that she, too, wanted to be a country singer when she grew up. [3]
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"I think everybody knows I'm still here," Tanya Tucker says when asked if she would describe her career these days as a comeback. But while most folks have heard of Tucker, they may not know that she is one of country music's all-time best-selling female vocalists. (They ... may not know how to pronounce her first name correctly: The "tan" rhymes with "can.") Tucker was born in Seminole in 1958, but her family soon moved to Las Vegas. In 1972, at the tender age of thirteen, she had her first hit with "Delta Dawn," which went to number six on the country charts and grazed the pop charts as well. By age fifteen she had released her first greatest-hits collection, received a Grammy nomination, and appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone. She went on to live the stereotypical on-the-edge life of the seventies music icon, later chronicling her love affairs and her battle with substance abuse in a 1997 autobiography, Nickel Dreams.
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In Tuckerville, Tanya and the family battle pythons, coyotes, ageing and Princess Presley’s tantrums. It’s never easy, but as any true country music fan knows, it’s these trials and tribulations that make great songs, and great television.
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Tucker said firefighters doused the house with water in an effort to keep it from catching fire and then used the residence as a base while they were in the area. She said she has special thanks for family friend Justin Bell, a volunteer firefighter who was able to go into her home and remove some of her prized possessions.
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