LaCosta (Tucker)

LaCosta Tucker (born December 12, 1951) is an American country music artist who recorded in the 1970s and 1980s as La Costa. The sister of country singer Tanya Tucker, LaCosta charted several singles of her own in the 1970s on the Billboard country singles charts, including the #3 "Get on My Love Train."
Born in Seminole, Texas, Tucker moved around frequently, as her father Beau Tucker was a construction worker. Tucker had two siblings, Donald and younger sister, Tanya Tucker. Beau felt LaCosta had the talent to be a star, and Tucker won her first talent contest at age four. In-between entering beauty pageants and talent shows, she performed with Tanya in a band called the Country Westerners. She graduated from Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona and began working as a medical records technician as she sang in clubs and became Miss Country Music, Phoenix.

LaCosta married, and around this time, Tanya became a country music star. LaCosta moved to Las Vegas to be near Tanya, and Beau Tucker helped her get a recording contract with Capitol Records in 1974. Going only by LaCosta, she soon had a hit record with "I Wanna Get To You", which landed at #25 on the country charts, followed by "Get On My Love Train" at #3. Tucker continued to have some degree of chart success for the rest of the decade with her biggest hits in the mid 1970s being the Top 10 "He Took Me For A Ride" in 1975 and "Western Man" in 1976, but many felt she was overshadowed by her younger sister. In 1982 she moved to Elektra Records and she charted her last success, "Love Take It Easy On Me", under her full name of LaCosta Tucker.

In 1989 LaCosta toured with Tanya, and by the 1990s was serving as president of Tanya's fan club. She raised two children, and for a time made gourmet candy for sale on her sister's website.

Many of LaCosta Tucker's recordings are out of print, but a 2000 release, Sisters: An Anthology, saw some of her hits packaged together with Tanya's material.

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