LaCosta Tucker (born December 12, 1951) is an American

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artist who recorded in the 1970s and 1980s as La Costa. The sister of country singer

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, LaCosta charted several singles of her own in the 1970s on the ''

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'' country singles charts, including the No. 3 "Get on My Love Train."

Biography

Born in

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, Tucker moved around frequently, as her father Beau Tucker was a construction worker. Tucker had two siblings, Donald, and younger sister,

. 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

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, and began working as a medical records technician as she sang in clubs and became Miss Country Music, Phoenix. LaCosta met and married airline pilot Darrell Sorensen, who fathered her children and also managed her career. It was around this time that

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was becoming a country music star. LaCosta chose to move to

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, to be near her; in 1974, Beau Tucker helped LaCosta get a recording contract with

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. 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 number 3, and "He Took Me for a Ride" at number 10. She charted ten more singles for Capitol and recorded five albums for the label. In 1982 she moved to

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, and she charted with "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'', contains some of her hits packaged together with Tanya's material.''Sisters: An Anthology'' at Amazon.com
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Discography

Studio albums

Singles

References

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