Anita Pointer

She was a member of the Pointer Sisters, the 70s band whose hits included Jump (For My Love) and Fire.

In 2003, her only child - Jada Pointer - died from cancer aged just 37. And in 1975, their hit song, Fairytale, won a Grammy award for Best Country Vocal Performance. With a blend of funk, soul and R&B, the group released their eponymous debut album in 1973.

The Pointer Sisters won three Grammy Awards and had 13 U.S. top 20 hit songs between 1973 and 1985, Anita Pointer's publicist said. The 1983 album "Break ...

"The Pointer Sisters would never have happened had it not been for Bonnie," she said in a statement. Bonnie Pointer left the group in 1977, signing a solo deal with Motown Records but enjoying only modest success. She was the one that kept all of us close and together for so long," her sister Ruth, bothers Aaron and Fritz and granddaughter Roxie McKain Pointer said in the statement. The 1983 album "Break Out" went triple platinum and garnered two American Music Awards. The group's 1973 self-titled debut album included the breakout hit, "Yes We Can Can." We thought it wasn't going to work without Bonnie."

Family hail singer as 'the one that kept all of us close and together for so long'

and the Pointer Sisters in 1985. [Katrina Leskanich, of Katrina and the Waves, recalled](https://twitter.com/KatrinasWeb/status/1609537750683860993) being on a tour with Wham! The Pointer Sisters group was initially two sisters, June and Bonnie, who performed as a duo in the late 1960s. Bonnie left in 1978 and the group almost disbanded. “Her love of our family will live on in each of us. She was surrounded by family at her Beverly Hills home in California when she died on New Year’s Eve, her publicist, Roger Neal, said.

Anita Pointer died in California, surrounded by family. Pointer – who co-founded The Pointer Sisters in the late 1960s – was 74.

Ruth Pointer continues to stage intermittent The Pointer Sisters live shows, joined by her daughter Issa and granddaughter Sadako Pointer. Beginning with 1980’s ‘He’s So Shy’, The Pointer Sisters produced a succession of popular singles in the first half of the 1980s. The Pointer Sisters released their most-recognised single, ‘I’m So Excited’, in 1982, which appeared on their ninth studio LP, So Excited! Anita Pointer was born in 1948 and formed the group with her younger sisters, Bonnie and June Pointer, in 1969. Bonnie and June left the group in 1977, but Anita kept recording and performing alongside her older sister, Ruth Pointer. The group’s 1974 single ‘Fairytale’ was an Australian top 40 hit, but the group didn’t hit their commercial peak until a decade later.

(AP) – Anita Pointer, one of four sibling singers who earned pop success and critical acclaim as The Pointer Sisters, died Saturday at the age of 74.

Anita Pointer, a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning Pointer Sisters, has died at age 74. The Oakland-born singer died on New Year's Eve.

[biography on the group’s website](https://thepointersisters.com/group-bio-short.html). She was a collector of African American art and memorabilia. The last photo of Bonnie (who died in 2020), Anita and Ruth was taken at the exhibit. “She was the one that kept all of us close and together for so long. Her love of our family will live on in each of us. Ruth joined the already established trio in 1972.