They marked the rhythm and blues scene of the 60s and 70s with their hits “I’m So Excited” and “Jump (For My Love)”. But the legendary Pointer Sisters are no more. Two years after Bonnie Sister’s death, Anita Pointer has just lost her battle with the disease. A cancer patient, the American singer died on Saturday at the age of 74. It was her agent, Roger Neal, who shared the painful news with the whole world via a message on Instagram. I am sad to announce that my Grammy winning client Anita Pointer has passed away after a heroic battle with cancer. he announced, specifying that the soulful artist he was surrounded by his family when she is die peacefully .
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“His love for our family will live on in all of us”
The Pointer family spoke with one voice to salute his memory. Despite our deep sadness over the loss of Anita, we are comforted to know that she is now with her daughter Jada and her sisters June and Bonnie, and at peace. It is she who has kept us all close and united for so long. Her love for our family will live on in each of us reacted his sister Ruth, his brothers Aaron and Fritz and his niece Roxie McKain Pointer in an official press release. Long before Anita and Bonnie, June Sister died in 2006, at the age of 52, from invasive cancer after struggling with cocaine and alcohol addictions for many years.
Originally, the Pointer Sisters were just a duo formed by June and Bonnie. Introduced to gospel music by their father Pastor Oakland, the two sisters later strummed their vocal harmonies under the name “Pointers, a Pair” as backing vocals for Betty Davis, Grace Slick or Elvin Bishop. The group had then become a trio with the arrival of Anita then a quartet with the reinforcement of sister Ruth in 1972. Success then knocked on their doors as soon as their first album “The Pointer Sisters” was released the following year, especially thanks to the title “Yes We Can Can”, then more records will come to consolidate their popularity. In the public mind, the Pointer Sisters are undoubtedly associated with their 1982 hit “I’m So Excited,” a remixed version of which would go on to international fame in 1984. Issa Pointer, Ruth’s daughter, took over the torch in 2002, shortly before June Pointer’s death. With three Grammy Awards in their collection for 10 nominations, the band received their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.
