Anita Pointer, a member of Grammy-winning group The Pointer Sisters, has died on the age of 74.
The singer, who was greatest identified for hits similar to I’m So Excited and Soar (For My Love), died on Saturday however a reason behind loss of life was not given.
Her closest surviving relations – sister, Ruth, brothers Aaron and Fritz, and her granddaughter Roxie McKain Pointer – confirmed the information in an announcement on New 12 months’s Day.
They introduced: ‘Whereas we're deeply saddened by the lack of Anita, we're comforted in understanding she is now together with her daughter, Jada, and her sisters June and Bonnie, and at peace.
‘She was the one which stored all of us shut and collectively for thus lengthy. Her love of our household will reside on in every of us. Please respect our privateness throughout this era of grief and loss. Heaven is a extra loving lovely place with Anita there.’
It comes two years after her sister Bonnie died aged 69 in June 2020.
Anita was a founding member of The Pointer Sisters, however was compelled to stop the R&B group attributable to unspecified well being points in 2015.
The group, which rose to fame within the Nineteen Seventies, consisted of Bonnie, Anita and their sisters June and Ruth.
The Pointer Sisters hit the bottom working after they debuted and loved a quantity two hit with their cowl of Bruce Springsteen’s Hearth in 1978.
They went on to launch a string of hits all through the Eighties, together with He’s So Shy, Neutron Dance, Gradual Hand and Soar (For My Love), which peaked at quantity three.
Computerized, their widespread 1984 single reached quantity 5, whereas I’m So Excited, which featured Anita on lead vocals, peaked at quantity 9.
The Pointer Sisters gained three Grammys throughout their profession, notably one in a rustic class for his or her 1974 track Fairytale, a rarity given the long-debated range problem throughout the style.
They had been the primary African-American group to ever carry out on the Grand Ole Opry.
Fairytale went on to develop into a fair larger hit when Elvis Presley launched a canopy model.
Anita recorded her remaining track with sister Bonnie simply months earlier than the latter’s loss of life. It was a tribute to their sister June, who died in 2006.
Following Bonnie’s loss of life two years in the past, Anita paid tribute and mentioned: ‘Bonnie was my greatest pal and we talked each day, we by no means had a combat in our life, I already miss her and I'll see her once more sooner or later.
‘The Pointer Sisters would by no means have occurred had it not been for Bonnie.’
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