Anita Pointer, one of many founding members of the R&B group the Pointer Sisters, has died at age 74, in keeping with her publicist Roger Neal.
Pointer handed away Saturday at her house in Los Angeles the place she was surrounded by her household, Neal stated in a press release to CNN. The reason for loss of life was most cancers, he stated.
“Whereas we’re deeply saddened by the lack of Anita, we’re comforted in understanding she is now along with her daughter, Jada and her sisters June & Bonnie and at peace,” Pointer’s household stated in a press release.
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“Heaven is a extra loving lovely place with Anita there.”
“She was the one which stored all of us shut and collectively for therefore lengthy. Her love of our household will reside on in every of us,” the assertion stated, whereas additionally asking that the household’s privateness be revered “throughout this era of grief and loss.”
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The 4 Pointer Sisters started singing collectively greater than 50 years in the past of their hometown church in Oakland, California, the place their father ministered.
Bonnie Pointer and her youngest sister, June, made their skilled singing debut as a duo in 1969.
They later recruited older sisters Anita and Ruth to affix them, earlier than releasing their first album collectively in 1973.
The group received their first Grammy Award for his or her crossover hit, Fairytale, in 1974. They’re additionally identified for hits like Sluggish Hand, Neutron Dance, and Bounce (For My Love).
The group received three whole Grammy Awards and had 13 US High 20 hits between 1973 and 1985.
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