Anita is known for co-founding the American band The Pointer Sisters with her sisters “John, Bonnie, and Ruth.” The band achieved great success during the 1970s and 1980s.
American singer and songwriter Antea Poynter has passed away at the age of 74.
Poynter died at her home in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, on New Year’s Eve from cancer she contracted in 2011, according to the British newspaper, The Guardian.
“While we are deeply saddened by the loss of Anita, we are relieved that she is now at peace with her daughter Jada and her sisters John and Bonnie,” the family said in a statement. “She has kept us all close for so long, and her love for family will live on in each of us.”
Anita is best known for founding the American band The Pointer Sisters with her sisters “John, Bonnie and Ruth”, and the band achieved great success during the seventies and eighties of the last century.
The band began in the late 1960s as a duo with Bonnie and John Pointer, then Anita joined them to become a trio and Sister Ruth joined them in late 1972. The band produced their first album in 1973 and their first single, Yes We Can Can.
Fire was a hit in 1978, followed by He’s So Shy in 1980, Slow Hand in 1981 and Neutron Dance, Automatic and Jump in 1983.
The band has won three Grammy Awards and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.
In 2016, Billboard magazine named the group the most successful dance artists of all time, and in 2017, the group was named the most successful dance artist of all time, and the 32nd most successful female artist of all time.
Anita gave up performing with the group in 2015; After she collapsed on stage and was advised by a doctor to take complete rest, she suffered from depression as a result of years of mental and physical trauma stemming from several family deaths from cancer.
