Background
Tucker was born in Conroe, Texas on 28 June 1944 to Ernest James and Annie Eloise (Lawson) Johnson, both from Montgomery, Texas. Many of the songs they sang were written by her mother Eloise.
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Barbara Tucker
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Tucker attended Houston schools including Jack Yates High School and Texas Southern University.
Career
Foreign one semester, she served as a voice consultant in TSU"s Fine Arts Department. Tucker is a popular Houston based performer and producer. Her early notoriety came from being an anthem soloist at Houston Oilers football and Houston Rockets basketball games, and on local Christian television She led the cast in a "congregation song" over the escaping Jack Johnson.
Also while in New York, she had her debut recital in the famed Carnegie Recital Hall and filmed several nationally-shown commercials.
Tucker was sang at the 1989 state funeral of Congressman Mickey Leland. In 1992, after returning home, she retired from her manager position at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.
Her church then presented her in her first full-time ministry concert. Tucker gained international fame as the first artist to record the extremely popular "Order My Steps" by Glenn Edward Burleigh.
Tucker sang at the 1996 state funeral of United States House of Representatives member Barbara Jordan.
In September 2000, she was presented in concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, District of Columbia by Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee. In November 2002, she sang atop the turkey float in Houston’s annual Thanksgiving Day Parade. Tucker’s ministry has spread abroad to England, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the Czechoslovakian Republic, Russia, Poland, Ireland, Austria, Italy and Manger Square in Bethlehem.
Achievements
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In 1969, Tucker ventured to New York City for one year and landed the only singing role in the 60-member cast of the Tony award winning dramatic theatre play The Great White Hope which starred James Earl Jones. Tucker released an album that was awarded two Texas Gospel Music Awards in 1993: Best New Album and Song of the Year.
Membership
She is a member of Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church, where Review Doctorate.Z. Cofield is Pastor.
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