On the Cook In Her Family

“My mother was always the cook.

Whatever I learned in cooking, I learned from her…

I learned how to make banana pudding and chicken fried steak.

Tanya Tucker

Credit: Derrek K Upish

I take her recipes and I kind of add a little bit of my own flair to them.”

On Growing Up Around Music

“My sister and I were the only singers.

My dad always told me, you know, Tanya, you got two problems.

He said, one of them is that you’re a girl.

And the other one is, you’re a 9-year-old girl.

A lot of great talent has been inside those walls.

That’s the thing: they’ve kept us going, kept me going when nothing was going.

And I think it’s payback time.

I think it’s time that we support them.

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