# La Costa

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 No. 3 "Get on My Love Train."

## Biography

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 met and married airline pilot Darrell Sorensen, who fathered her children and also managed her career. It was around this time that Tanya was becoming a country music star. LaCosta chose to move to Las Vegas, to be near her; in 1974, Beau Tucker helped LaCosta get a recording contract with Capitol Records. Going only by LaCosta, she soon had a hit record with "I Wanta 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 Elektra Records, 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.

## Discography
### Studio albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | US Country |
| Get on My Love Train | Released: October 21, 1974 Label: Capitol Format: LP | 6 |
| With All My Love | Released: April 21, 1975 Label: Capitol Format: LP | 33 |
| Lovin' Somebody | Released: September 27, 1976 Label: Capitol Format: LP | 31 |
| La Costa | Released: October 17, 1977 Label: Capitol Format: LP | — |
| Changin' All the Time | Released: July 14, 1980 Label: Capitol Format: LP | — |

### Singles

| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Album |
| Title | Year | US Country | CAN Country | Album |
| "I Wanta Get to You" | 1974 | 25 | — | Get on My Love Train |
| "Get on My Love Train" | 1974 | 3 | 6 | Get on My Love Train |
| "He Took Me for a Ride" | 1975 | 10 | 21 | Get on My Love Train |
| "This House Runs on Sunshine" | 1975 | 19 | 15 | With All My Love |
| "Western Man" | 1975 | 11 | 10 | Non-album single |
| "I Just Got a Feeling" | 1976 | 28 | — | With All My Love |
| "Lovin' Somebody on a Rainy Night" | 1976 | 23 | 17 | Lovin' Somebody |
| "What'll I Do" | 1976 | 37 | 28 | Lovin' Somebody |
| "We're All Alone" | 1977 | 75 | — | Non-album single |
| "Jessie and the Light" | 1977 | 100 | — | LaCosta |
| "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" | 1978 | 79 | — | LaCosta |
| "#1 with a Heartache" | 1978 | 94 | — | LaCosta |
| "Changing All the Time" | 1980 | 68 | — | Changin' All the Time |
| "It Was Time" | 1980 | — | — | Changin' All the Time |
| "Love Take It Easy on Me" | 1982 | 48 | — | Non-album single |