The artist, who had won three Grammy Awards with his sisters in the 1970s, died on Saturday at the age of 74.
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The American singer Anita Pointer, famous in the 1970s and 1980s with her sisters in the Rhythm and Blues Pointer Sisters group, died on Saturday December 31, at the age of 74 of cancer, A announced his agent. “I am sad to announce that my grammy Anita Pointer winner client died after a heroic battle against cancer,” said Roger Neal on Instagram . She died on the eve of the New Year at home, in Los Angeles, surrounded by her family, he said at Cnn .
“Despite our deep sadness of the loss of Anita, we are consolidated to know her now with her daughter Jada and her sisters June and Bonnie, and in peace,” the family said in a statement. The group, from Oakland in California, was originally trained by Anita and its Sisters June (died in April 2006), Bonnie (disappeared in June 2020) then Ruth. They had started to sing in the church where their father was a pastor, in Oakland.
Three Grammy Awards
Point sisters, marked at first by jazz, Be-Bop and Gospel, released their first album in 1973 and then won three Grammy Awards during their career. Their foray into country music with the song Fairytale in 1975 had earned them the first, and they had been invited to the legendary room of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, a first for black artists.
The group had gone to three members after the defection in 1977 of Bonnie, party to continue a solo career. This did not prevent the pointe sisters from multiplying the successes at the turn of the 1980s (Fire, He’s So Shy, Slow Hand or I’m so excited), with a repertoire oscillating between winks at the scat of the 1940s and Disco.
If their popularity had declined in the late 1980s, pointer sisters continued to perform in concert. June Pointer had left the group in 2004, replaced by a daughter of Ruth, Issa.