Pointer Sisters

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Anita Pointer, of Grammy-winning Pointer Sisters, dies at 74 (The Washington Post)

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.

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Singer Anita Pointer of The Pointer Sisters dies at age 74 (New Zealand Herald)

The Grammy winner passed away while she was with family members, publicist Roger Neal said in a statement. A cause of death was not immediately revealed. “While ...

Bonnie Pointer left the group in 1977, signing a solo deal with Motown Records but enjoying only modest success. Known for hit songs including I’m So Excited, Slow Hand, Neutron Dance and Jump (For My Love), the singers gained a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994. She was the one that kept all of us close and together for so long,” her sister Ruth, brothers Aaron and Fritz and granddaughter Roxie McKain Pointer said in the statement.

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US singer Anita Pointer of The Pointer Sisters dies at age 74 (Stuff.co.nz)

Anita Pointer, one of four siblings who earned pop success and critical acclaim as The Pointer Sisters, has died at the age of 74.

“We did a show the night she left, but after that, we just stopped. The 1983 album Break Out went triple platinum and garnered two American Music Awards. Known for hit songs including, I’m So Excited, Slow Hand, Neutron Dance and Jump (For My Love), the singers gained a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994. We thought it wasn’t going to work without Bonnie.” *

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Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters dies at 74 (1 News)

Anita was the second oldest of the four siblings, who rose to fame in the seventies through hit songs like Jump (For My Love) and Fire.

Anita raided her granddaughter Roxie. In a statement, her family said they are "comforted in knowing she is now with her daughter Jada and her sisters June & Bonnie and at peace". [BBC](https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64138736) reports that her family were deeply saddened by her passing, saying in a statement, "Heaven is a more loving, beautiful place with Anita there."

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Anita Pointer from Grammy-winning Pointer Sisters dies aged 74 (The Guardian)

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.

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