Barbara Johnson Tucker
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Barbara Johnson Tucker is an African American Christian Music Recording Artist born in Conroe, Texas on 28 June in 1944. She is a popular Houston based performer and producer known early for being an Anthem soloist at Houston Oiler football games and local Christian TV. In 1969, Tucker ventured to NYC for one year and landed the only singing role in the 60-member cast of the drama, The Great White Hope, which starred James Earl Jones. She led the cast in a "congregation song" over the escaping Jack Johnson.
In 1992, after returning home, she retired from SWB Tele Co and, as her church presented her in her first full-time ministry concert, she became the first artist to record the now very popular Order My Steps by Glenn Edward Burleigh. The album won two Gospel Music Awards in 1993, Best New Album and Song Of The Year. 1
In 2001, she was the Texas Artist, presented by Sheila Jackson Lee, featured at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Today, she is still based in Houston but travels the world singing. Her latest endeavor is A Glimpse Of History, a DVD musical lecture, on the history of the evolution of African American Music, which she is frequently found rendering in Houston (and surrounding area) Schools.
