She was 69.
“Our loved ones is devastated, on behalf of my siblings and I and the total Pointer relatives, we check with for your prayers at this time,” Anita Pointer claimed in a assertion to CNN
“Bonnie was my most effective good friend and we talked each and every day,” she ongoing. “We never ever experienced a fight in our daily life. I presently miss out on her and I will see her all over again 1 working day.”
Bonnie Pointer died of cardiac arrest, in accordance to her publicist, Roger Neal.
The 4 Pointer Sisters commenced singing jointly far more than 50 several years in the past in their hometown church in Oakland, California, where their father ministered. Bonnie Pointer and her youngest sister, June, started out singing with each other skillfully in 1969. They afterwards recruited more mature sisters Anita and Ruth to be a part of them, ahead of debuting their very first album alongside one another in 1973.
The group gained their first Grammy Award for their crossover hit, “Fairytale,” in 1974. Bonnie Pointer recorded five albums with her sisters in advance of pursuing a solo career. She signed with Motown and scored her largest solo hit with the 1978 disco keep track of, “Heaven Need to Have Despatched You.”
Pointer introduced a few albums with Motown right before stepping again a bit from the highlight, even though she continue to performed periodically above the a long time.
In her statement, Anita Pointer credited Bonnie for the success of their musical family.
“The Pointer Sisters in no way would have transpired had it not been for Bonnie,” she claimed.
