Anita Pointer, a founder of the Pointer Sisters, dies at 74
Anita Pointer, a founding member of the genre-spanning pop group the Pointer Sisters, died Dec. 31 at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 74. The cause was cancer, said her publicist, Roger Neal. The Pointer Sisters helped define the sound of the early 1980s by combining a sultry electronic motif with brassy R&B. The