american singer Anita Pointermember of the successful group he joined with his three sisters and which rose to fame in the 1970s, The Pointer sistersdied on Saturday 31 December at the age of 74.
the American press released this Sunday, January 1, a statement from the family in which he confirmed his death.
“While we are deeply saddened by the loss of Anita, It comforts us to know that he is now with his daughter, Jada, and his sisters June and Bonnie, and at peace.“, underlines the short and exciting text.
“It was she who kept us all close and together for so long” and “his love for our family will live on in each of us”add text signed by her four closest survivors: her sister Ruth, brothers Aaron and Fritz, and her niece Roxie McKain pointer.
Anita had been with the Oakland group since its formation in 1971 until she was forced to retire for health reasons in 2015.
Before the official creation of the band, Bonnie and another of her sisters, June, had their own group, Pointer, au pair, to whom later Ruth and Anita teamed up and formed The Pointer Sisters.
The group counts among its successes with themes I’m so horny, is he so shy or jump (for my love)songs that became popular in the decades of the 70s and 80s.
In interviews they said that, finally, what they dared to do was recreate the house shows they did as teenagers on stage.
The band has also ventured into country music with their song tale and it became the first African-American group to perform at the Grand Ole Opry, the mythical stage of country culture of Tennessee (Nashville, United States).
Over the course of a rich and long career, the “Pointers”, as they were colloquially called in the music business, won out three Grammy Awards and received 10 nominations in different categories.
The quartet, led by Bonnie, fused the genres of funk, soul jazz and 1940s-style pop.flirting with a retro style similar to that of its predecessors The Andrews sisters.
Two years after Bonnie’s death
Singer Bonnie Pointer passed away on Monday, June 8, 2020, at the age of 69due to cardiac arrest, according to their relatives and the artist’s representative.
Despite being the soul of the Pointers, in ’77 she decided to run away from her sisters to prove herself. One of her biggest successes was with the album Heaven must have sent you.
“It is with great sadness that I have to announce this to fans of The Pointer Sisters my sister Bonnie died this morning. Our family is devastated“, his sister Anita Pointer (then 72) said at the time in a statement released by several media outlets.
The time that Bonnie was together with three of her sisters was enough for her to be part of four of the 15 albums released by the group, which then continued without her.
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