Anita Pointer, of the Legendary Pointer Sisters, Passes Away at 74
Anita Pointer was the lead singer on the Pointer Sisters’ top 40 hits in the group’s early years, and during their greatest commercial success in the 1980s.
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Anita Pointer was the lead singer on the Pointer Sisters’ top 40 hits in the group’s early years, and during their greatest commercial success in the 1980s.
"Our family is devastated," sister Anita Pointer said in a statement.
With roots in gospel and a radical spirit of resistance, The Pointer Sisters reformulated the girl group for an era of self-actualization and Black power, scoring a massive run of hits along the way.
The Pointer Sisters performing in New York City in 1983, the year the group released its album em Break Out /em , which included four top 10 hits. If you spun the dial of your AM/FM radio on any given day in the early 1980s, chances are you heard a Pointer Sisters' record. The group was in heavy rotation in a variety of formats whose playlists included Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen and the Human League or Patti LaBelle and Earth, Wind and Fire. The electro-pop sound of the Pointer Sisters' "Jump (For My Love)," "Automatic" or "Neutron Dance" dominated the charts during the first half of the...