Tucker Zimmerman (born Brian Tucker Zimmerman in San Francisco CA, on 14 February 1941) is an American songwriter and performer. Zimmerman studied violin from age 4 to age 7, playing a violin made by his grandfather, an immigrant from Bavaria in the late 19th century, who was both an architect and a violin maker.At age 7 he was moved to Healdsburg (a rural town in Northern California) where he lived until the age of 17. He attended and graduated from both the grammar school and high school there.