Anita Pointer, one of the founders of the R&B group The Pointer Sisters, died on December 31 in Los Angeles. She turned 74.
“It is sad to report that my client, Grammy winner Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters, has passed away after a heroic battle with cancer,” Roger Neal, Pointer’s publicist, wrote on social media. “Her family was around her at the time of her death. She fell asleep peacefully.”
The Pointer Sisters – Ruth, Anita, Bonnie and June – grew up singing in a church in Oakland, California, where their father was a pastor. Bonnie and June performed professionally as a duo for the first time in 1969. Together with their older sisters Anita and Ruth, the quartet released their first album in 1973 with “Yes We Can Can” as their first hit.
The group won a total of three Grammy Awards and had 13 US Top 20 hits between 1973 and 1985. Bonnie Pointer left the group in 1977 to pursue a solo career. Ruth, Anita and June reinvented themselves with pop hits from the 1080s such as “He’s So Shy”, “Jump (For My Love)” and “Neutron Dance”.
Bonnie and Ruth died in 2020 and 2006 respectively; Anita Pointer’s only daughter, Jada Pointer, died in 2003.
“While we are deeply saddened by the loss of Anita, we are comforted to know that she is now with her daughter Jada and sisters June and Bonnie and is at peace,” the Pointer family said in a statement. “Heaven is a more loving, beautiful place with Anita there.”
Writer: Nellie Andreeva
Source: Deadline
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