Status: 01/01/2023 3:11 p.m
With hits like “I’m So Excited!” and “Jump” are early ’80s party classics for the Pointer Sisters. Founding member Anita Pointer has died at the age of 74 – after a “heroic fight” against cancer, as her spokesman explained.
The US singer Anita Pointer, founding member of the soul disco group The Pointer Sisters, is dead. His client died after a “heroic fight” against cancer, said Pointer’s spokesman Roger Neal. The 74-year-old Grammy winner passed away peacefully surrounded by her family. The Pointers family said in a statement released by US media: “While it is with our deepest sadness to lose Anita, we are comforted to know that she is now with her daughter, Jada, and her sisters June and Bonnie together and in… is peace.”
Daughter of a California preacher
Anita Pointer grew up as the daughter of a preacher in Oakland, California. Together with her sisters Ruth, Bonnie and June, she formed the group The Pointer Sisters in the early 1970s, with Bonnie separating from the group in 1978 to pursue a solo career. With hits like “I’m So Excited!” from 1982 and “Jump (For My Love)” from 1983 as well as a total of more than 15 released albums, the group wrote in music history across genres with R&B, country, funk, pop and disco. She won a total of three Grammys.
After the death of June in 2006, who also succumbed to cancer, and Bonnie, only the eldest of the singing siblings, Ruth, survives.