Бонни Пойнтер, член-основатель сестер Пойнтер, умерла в возрасте 69 лет

LOS ANGELES — Bonnie Pointer, a Grammy-profitable founding member of the Pointer Sisters, who was a must-must the crew’s early success but left the crew earlier than most of their absolute top hits, died Monday.

Pointer died of cardiac arrest in Los Angeles, publicist Roger Neal said. She was 69.

“It’s with immense unhappiness that I’ve to pronounce to the fans of the Pointer Sisters that my sister, Bonnie died this morning,” sister Anita Pointer said in a recount. “Our family is devastated, on behalf of my siblings and I and the total Pointer family, we request on your prayers at this time.”

The four Pointer sisters, Ruth, Anita, Bonnie and June, grew up singing in church in Oakland, California, where their father was a minister.

It was Bonnie, quickly after graduating excessive faculty, who first wished to trail out of church and into clubs to pursue a talented singing profession.

“The Pointer Sisters would never have befell had it no longer been for Bonnie,” Anita Pointer said in her recount.

She pleased youthful sister June to be half of her, and the 2 began doing gigs collectively as a duo in 1969. Sooner or later they’d convince their two older sisters, who were already married with children, to be half of them.

The quartet brought unheard of fusion of funk, soul and 1940s-fashion jazz, scat and pa to their act, incessantly dressing in a retro fashion that resembled their forerunners the Andrews Sisters.

They worked as backup singers for Taj Mahal, Boz Scaggs, Elvin Bishop and others earlier than releasing their self-titled debut album was launched in 1973, and the song “Sure We Can Can” became their breakout hit.

They adopted up with “That’s A Hundreds,” which featured an eclectic combination of musical kinds starting from jazz to nation and pa. They won a Grammy Award in 1974 for easiest nation vocal efficiency by a crew for the song “Fairytale,” which Bonnie co-wrote.

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