Tanya Tucker
Tanya Tucker
Tanya Denise Tuckeris an American female 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, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of Top 10 and Top 40 hits. She has had several successful albums, several Country Music Association award nominations, and hit songs such as 1973's "What's...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth10 October 1958
CitySeminole, TX
CountryUnited States of America
It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
The best thing is being able to perform in front of people and to express my feelings, whatever they may be at the time. Just to be able to make the world a happier place to be.
It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
Delta Dawn, what's that flower you have on, could it be a faded rose from days gone by?
Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
The world says they'll never make it, love says they will.
There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.
Everybody has problems.
At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.
We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.
If the Cowboys and Titans ain't playing, I'm not interested.
You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.