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From BZ/dpa
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 on his social media channels on New Year’s Saturday (local time).
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 we are deeply saddened by the loss of Anita, we are comforted to know that she is now with her daughter, Jada, and her sisters, June and Bonnie, together and in… Peace is.” Heaven is a nicer place with Anita there.
Together with her sisters Ruth, Bonnie and June, Anita formed the singing combo The Pointer Sisters in the early 1970s, with Bonnie separating from the group in 1978 to pursue a solo career. With hits like “Jump (For My Love)” and “I’m So Excited!” and a total of more than 15 released albums, the group wrote in music history across genres with R&B, country, funk, pop and disco.
After the death of June 2006, who also succumbed to cancer, and Bonnie 2020, only the oldest of the singing siblings, Ruth, is alive.