Anita Pointer, a member of the Pointer Sisters, a soul and R&B group she formed with her sisters in the 1970s and 1980s, died Saturday at age 74 of cancer, her agent said.
“While we are deeply saddened by the loss of Anita, we take comfort in knowing that she is now with her daughter, Jada, and her sisters June and Bonnie, and at peace,” her family said in a statement.
The group is famous in particular for the pipes I’m so excitedreleased in 1984 and won several Grammy Awards.
Growing up in Oakland, California, with her sisters Ruth, Bonnie, and June, Anita Pointer had begun singing as a child, at the church where her father officiated. Anita joined the group started by her sisters Bonnie and June in 1969, and the Pointer Sisters released their first record in 1973. This album, titled The Pointer Sisterscontains a first hit, the song Yes we can we can.
“I was planning to continue being a secretary at a law firm, as I used to, when I heard Bonnie and June singing in the Northern California State Youth Choir, performing oh happy day and i loved it. So I quit my job and told myself that I had to do that too, ”she confessed to the magazine in 2019. Goldmine.
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It’s with a version of a Bruce Springsteen song, Firethat the Pointer Sisters reached the top of the charts in 1978.
The group then chained the successes during the following decade, of he is so shy in 1980 to slow hand in 1981 through neutron dance Where Jump (for my love) in 1984, and Automaticthe same year.
I’m so excitedthe tube that will become a planetary, appears on the album Very excitedreleased in 1982. The single, signed by Anita Pointer, June Pointer, Ruth Pointer and Trevor Lawrence, will be remixed in 1984. Entered into pop culture, the song appears in particular on the soundtracks of many films, from working girl with Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver in passenger lovers by Pedro Almodovar.
Their last title to rank on the American charts is Christmas in New York, in 2005. Still active, the group had lost June, who died in 2006, and Bonnie, who died in 2020 and continued with Issa Pointer and Sadako Pointer Johnson, daughter . and the little daughter of Ruth.
Anita Pointer had lost her daughter Jada to cancer in 2003.
Source: BFM TV
