Word: tanya
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Country music is still dominated by white performers like Merle Haggard and Tanya Tucker, who wear their lower-class origins like a spangled suit. But recent years have witnessed the success of equally authentic artists who know the bottom from a different angle. Few white stars rival the popularity or talent of Charley Pride, a black Alabamian, or Jonny Rodriguez, a Texas Chicano, and few have done more to revitalize genuine country music while incorporating some of the more adaptable elements of pop music--strings, pianos, and complex vocal accompaniments. Such artists have strengthened country music while enriching it with...
...acceptance rate of Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates for the past two year has held constant at 28 per cent. Medical School admissions officer Tanya Friedman said yesterday that this year's rate will not be ready until April...
Music of Ravel, Bach, Bartok, Chopin; Tanya Bartevyan, planist; Dunster Library; 5:30; free...
...Tanya's break came when Country Entrepreneur Billy Sherrill heard one of her "demo" 45s. Six weeks later she recorded Delta Dawn. Now when she walks along a Nashville street, cars slow down and people shout her name. She quit ninth grade a year ago with no regrets. Her future is country music. "We're here to stay," she says confidently...
...Tanya does not know how much money she earns. Her six-figure income goes into a trust fund. Her lawyer gives her $250 a week as allowance, and she banks it. It seems a country star hardly has to buy anything. "A lot of people give you things," says Tanya genially. "Western belts. A white monster of a truck I call Moby Dick. And a man from South Dakota gave me a new breed of cow with a talent for putting weight on fast. A doctor in Houston promised me a pinto quarter horse if I would just stay...