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Did you know?: Pointer Sisters singer Anita Pointer dies aged 74 

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Pointer Sisters singer Anita Pointer dies aged 74

Pointer Sisters singer Anita Pointer dies aged 74:The Pointer Sisters singer Anita Pointer dies aged seventy-four two years after bandmate and sibling Bonnie

The singer, who used to be high-quality and recognized for hits such as I’m So Excited and Jump (For My Love), died on Saturday however a motive of dying was once no longer given.

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Her closest surviving household participants – sister, Ruth, brothers Aaron and Fritz, and her granddaughter Roxie McKain Pointer – verified the information in a declaration on New Year’s Day.

They announced: ‘While we are deeply saddened using the loss of Anita, we are comforted in understanding she is now with her daughter, Jada, and her sisters June and Bonnie, and at peace.

‘She used to be the one that stored all of us shut and collectively for so long. Her love of our household will stay on in every one of us. Please appreciate our privateness all through this duration of grief and loss. Heaven is an extra loving lovely vicinity with Anita there.’

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It comes two years after her sister Bonnie died aged sixty-nine in June 2020.

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Anita used to be a founding member of The Pointer Sisters, however, was once compelled to end the R&B crew due to unspecified fitness problems in 2015.

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The group, which rose to repute in the 1970s, consisted of Bonnie, Anita, and their sisters June and Ruth.

The Pointer Sisters hit the floor jogging when they debuted and loved a quantity two hit with their cowl of Bruce Springsteen’s Fire in 1978.

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They went on to launch a string of hits during the 1980s, consisting of He’s So Shy, Neutron Dance, Slow Hand, and Jump (For My Love), which peaked at quantity three.

Automatic, their famous 1984 single reached variety five, whilst I’m So Excited, which featured Anita on lead vocals, peaked at variety nine.

The Pointer Sisters received three Grammys for the duration of their career, relatively one in a united states class for their 1974 track Fairytale, a rarity given the long-debated range of difficulty inside the genre.

They had been the first African-American crew to ever function at the Grand Ole Opry.

Fairytale went on to come to be an even higher hit when Elvis Presley launched a cowl version.

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Pointer Sisters singer Anita Pointer dies aged 74 

Pointer Sisters singer Anita Pointer dies aged 74 
Pointer Sisters singer Anita Pointer dies aged 74

Anita recorded her last music with her sister Bonnie simply months earlier than the latter’s death. It was once a tribute to their sister June, who died in 2006.

Following Bonnie’s death two years ago, Anita paid tribute and said: ‘Bonnie used to be my fine pal and we talked each day, we in no way had a battle in our life, I already pass over her and I will see her once more one day.

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