Between taking orders and serving customers, Tucker recalled that she "would stand up in the narrow space by the door and sing with all the drama I could put into it. Īt a young age, she began singing at her parents' restaurant for tips. The family lived in Boston's North End for eight years, then settled in Hartford, Connecticut and opened a restaurant. The family adopted the surname Abuza before immigrating, her father fearing repercussions for having deserted from the Imperial Russian Army. (Sonya is a pet name for Sofiya in both Russian and Ukrainian as well as for Sofya, the Yiddish form of the name Sophia.) They arrived in Boston on September 26, 1887. Tucker was born Sofiya "Sonya" Kalish (in Russian, Софья «Соня» Калиш Yiddish: סאָפיאַ קאַליש) in 1886 to a Jewish family in Tulchyn, Russian Empire, now Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.
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