Anita Pointer, who sang along with her sisters to industrial fame because the Pointer Sisters, has died on the age of 74.
Pointer died at her Los Angeles on Saturday, New 12 months’s Eve, in line with her publicist Roger Neal.
The vocal group, which switched between a trio and 1 / 4, scored hits with songs together with I am So Excited, Leap (For My Love) and the Bruce Springsteen–penned Hearth.
Pointer’s loss of life comes simply two years after her sister Bonnie Pointer — who co-founded the Pointer Sisters within the late Sixties earlier than going solo within the ’80s — died in 2020.
Swan music: Anita Pointer, who sang along with her sisters and relations within the standard R&B and pop group the Pointer Sisters, died on Saturday at 74, her publicist introduced; seen in 2019 in LA
The singer–songwriter was surrounded by household on the time of her loss of life, which he attributed to most cancers.
‘Whereas we’re deeply saddened by the lack of Anita, we’re comforted in figuring out she is now along with her daughter, Jada and her sisters June & Bonnie and at peace,’ Pointer’s household shared in a press release. ‘Heaven is a extra loving lovely place with Anita there.’
‘She was the one which stored all of us shut and collectively for thus lengthy. Her love of our household will dwell on in every of us,’ the assertion continued, earlier than requesting that followers respect her household’s privateness.
Though the group started within the late ’60s as a duo with Bonnie and June Pointer, Anita quickly joined to broaden it right into a trio, earlier than sister Ruth Pointer expanded the band right into a quartet in late 1972, simply earlier than kicking off its industrial peak.
Triple energy: After her sister Bonnie and June began a duo in 1969, Anita joined to broaden the Pointer Sisters right into a trio; seen with sisters Ruth and June in 1980
Hitmakers: The vocal group, which switched between a trio and 1 / 4, scored hits with songs together with I am So Excited, Leap (For My Love) and the Bruce Springsteen–penned Hearth; Ruth, June and Anita seen in 1979
