{"id":37622,"date":"2014-10-16T18:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=37622"},"modified":"2014-10-16T18:00:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T23:00:14","slug":"tanya-tucker-strong-enough-to-bend-nov-14-at-hof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/16\/tanya-tucker-strong-enough-to-bend-nov-14-at-hof\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanya Tucker Strong Enough To Bend Nov, 14 at HOF"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TanyaTucker01\"TANYA TUCKER: STRONG ENOUGH TO BEND\u00a0OPENS NOVEMBER 14 <\/strong><\/p>\n

AT \u00a0COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME\u00ae AND MUSEUM<\/strong><\/p>\n

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (October 16, 2014) \u2013 The Country Music Hall of Fame\u00ae and Museum will explore the career of superstar Tanya Tucker with the exhibition Tanya Tucker: Strong Enough to Bend,which opens November 14, 2014, and runs through May 2015.<\/p>\n

Tanya Tucker\u2019s talent blossomed early, despite being born into poverty in Texas and raised in ramshackle apartments and trailers in Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. She began performing on local shows at age six, and within years was a regular on a Phoenix TV program.\u00a0 A Las Vegas agent sent a demo recording to Billy Sherrill, who quickly signed Tucker to Columbia Records. She was thirteen years old.<\/p>\n

At the time, few child performers had achieved success in country music. But the singer\u2019s husky voice and audacious confidence made her seem more grown-up. She proved as much when she walked into a Nashville studio, in March 1972, and announced to Sherrill and the veteran musicians, \u201cWell, I know my part, boys. Do you know yours?\u201d She proceeded to belt out \u201cDelta Dawn\u201d like a seasoned pro, and by summer the song was a hit.<\/p>\n

\"TanyaTucker02\"Tucker assured her success by releasing six consecutive Top Ten hits\u2014including the #1s \u201cWhat\u2019s Your Mama\u2019s Name,\u201d \u201cBlood Red and Goin\u2019 Down,\u201d and \u201cWould You Lay With Me (in a Field of Stone)\u201d\u2014in two years, all produced by Sherrill. The narrative songs told daring stories that courted controversy, and Tucker\u2019s mature-beyond-her-years vocal style brought out the drama and emotion in each.<\/p>\n

Two years into her singing career, Tucker appeared on the cover ofRolling Stone magazine\u2014a rare national media spotlight for a country star in 1974. To her parents, Beau and Juanita Tucker, such recognition signified that their teen daughter had crossover potential that could take her beyond the country audience.<\/p>\n

On October 10, 1974\u2014Tucker\u2019s sixteenth birthday\u2014she signed a $1.4 million contract with MCA Records, a deal brokered by her ambitious father. Her seven years on MCA yielded the #1 hits \u201cLizzie and the Rainman.\u201d \u201cSan Antonio Stroll,\u201d and \u201cHere\u2019s Some Love.\u201d In 1978, she recorded the rock-influenced album T.N.T. in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

In California, Tucker began dating singer Glen Campbell, twenty-two years her senior; their fiery, tabloid-filled relationship ended in acrimony.\u00a0 After a stint with Arista Records, Tucker signed with Capitol Records and reunited with producer Jerry Crutchfield, with whom she had worked at MCA.<\/p>\n

Tucker\u2019s 1986 album, Girl Like Me, featured four Top Ten hits, including the #1 \u201cJust Another Love.\u201d She enjoyed a long run of success on Capitol (and sister label Liberty), with a string of Top Ten hits through 1997, including three consecutive #1s, \u201cI Won\u2019t Take Less Than Your Love,\u201d \u201cIf It Don\u2019t Come Easy,\u201d and \u201cStrong Enough to Bend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tanya Tucker heard her name called as the 1991 CMA Female Vocalist of the Year while lying in a hospital bed, watching the awards show on TV. Earlier the same day, she had delivered her second child, Beau.<\/p>\n

Her first child, daughter Presley, was born in July 1989\u2014a year after Tucker had checked herself into the Betty Ford Center over issues with substance abuse. Her third child, Layla, arrived in 1999.<\/p>\n

For Tucker, the CMA award came at a time when some radio stations refused to play her music while criticizing her choice to be a single mother. The CMA award, the first of her career, proved that the country music industry at large continued to support her. The national media cited Tucker\u2019s win, and her eighteen Top Ten hits between 1988 and 1994, as signs that country music reflected the evolving roles of women in American society.<\/p>\n

Tucker detailed her colorful life story in her 1997 autobiography,Nickel Dreams: My Life. The singer also starred in her own reality show, Tuckerville, on cable network TLC. \u201cEvery one of us has good and bad times in our lives,\u201d Tucker wrote in Nickel Dreams. \u201cIn my case, they have been to extremes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Country Music Hall of Fame\u00ae and Museum is operated by the Country Music Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964. The museum\u2019s mission is the preservation of the history of country and related vernacular music rooted in southern culture.\u00a0 With the same educational mission, the foundation also operates CMF Records, the museum\u2019s Frist Library and Archive, CMF Press, Historic RCA Studio B and Hatch Show Print\u00ae.<\/p>\n

More information about the Country Music Hall of Fame\u00ae and Museum is available at countrymusichalloffame.org<\/a>\u00a0 or by calling (615) 416-2001.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0kirt@websterpr.com<\/p>\n

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