(Reuters) – Anita Pointer, certainly one of the Grammy-winning Pointer Sisters whose string of pop, country and R&B hits within the Seventies and ’80s included “I’m So Excited,” “Jump (For My Love)” and “Fire,” died of cancer on Saturday at age 74, her publicist said.
Pointer was surrounded by family at her Beverly Hills home when she died, publicist Roger Neal said.
Anita was the second oldest of 4 sisters who began performing because the duo of June and Bonnie in 1969 and shortly became a trio when Anita quit her job as a secretary to hitch the group, in line with an official biography.
The Pointer Sisters later became a quartet for some time with Ruth, the one certainly one of the unique singing sisters still alive, though Bonnie left the group within the late Seventies they usually became a trio once more. The Pointer sisters even have two surviving brothers, Fritz and Aaron.
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Anita was preceded in death by her daughter Jada, who died in 2003, when Anita took over raising her granddaughter, Roxie McKain Pointer.
“While we’re deeply saddened by the lack of Anita, we’re comforted in knowing she is now along with her daughter Jada and her sisters June & Bonnie and at peace. She was the one which kept all of us close and together for thus long. Her love of our family will survive in each of us,” the family said in an announcement.
The sisters grew up singing within the church of their father, a preacher in Oakland, California.
Their debut album in 1973 produced their first hit single “Yes We Can Can.”
Amongst their greater hits were “Fire” in 1978, “He’s So Shy” in 1980, “Slow Hand” in 1981, and “Neutron Dance,” “Automatic” and “Jump” in 1983. “I’m So Excited” from 1982 stays an ordinary.
In recent times, the group continued performing with Ruth singing along along with her daughter Issa and granddaughter Sadako.
(Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Kim Coghill)
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