Anita Pointer, founding member of the Pointer Sisters, has passed away

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Sad news in the music world. Singer Anita Pointer, a founding member of the Pointer Sisters, has died of cancer at the age of 74.

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He had achieved international fame with the planetary tube I’m so excitednow ingrained in pop culture. Singer Anita Pointerone of the founding members of the Pointer Sisters quartet, died of cancer on Saturday, December 31, 2022 at the age of 74, announced his agent Roger Neal. “Sad to announce that my client, Grammy winner Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters, has passed away after a heroic battle with cancer, her family were around her at the time of her passing. She died peacefully“The late singer’s family has released a statement.”While we are deeply saddened by the loss of Anita, we are comforted to know that she is now with her daughter Jada. [emportée par un cancer en 2003, ndlr], her sisters June and Bonnie and at peace. Heaven is a more beautiful and loving place now that Anita is here. The love she had for our family will live on in all of us..”

From secretary to interplanetary artist

After quitting her job as a secretary, Anita Pointer joined her younger sisters Bonnie (d. June 2020) and June (d. April 2006) to form the Pointer Sisters in the late 1960s.I was planning on continuing to be a secretary at a law firm when I heard Bonnie and June singing in the Northern California State Youth Choir, performing Oh happy day, and I loved it“, he confided in 2019 to the magazine Gold mine. “So I quit my job and thought I should do this tooThey had started singing at their father’s pastor’s church in Oakland, California before joining Atlantic Records. After their first two singles failed, the trio convinced older sister Ruth to join the lineup. In 1973, the quartet released their first album and quickly found success with hits Yes we canwritten by Allen Toussaint, e Tale.

A success rooted in pop culture

Four years after their debut, the group lost one of its members. Bonnie Pointer has chosen to pursue a solo career. Despite her departure, that hasn’t stopped Ruth, Anita and June Pointer from putting together hits, including the famous I’m so excited. This tube, anchored in pop culture, appears in the soundtrack of several feature films, especially the comedy one Passenger lovers from Pedro Almodóvar or even on that of the rom-com Working girl with Harrison Ford et Sigourney Weaver. Although the Pointer Sisters’ popularity had declined in the late 1980s, they still continued to perform in concert. June Pointer eventually left the band in 2004, two years before her death, and was replaced by Issa Pointer and Sadako Pointer Johnson, daughter and granddaughter of Ruth.

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