Pointer Sisters singer Anita Pointer dies on New Year s Eve as tributes pour in ok.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ok.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Pointer Sisters won three Grammy Awards and had 13 U.S. top 20 hit songs between 1973 and 1985, Anita Pointer's publicist said. The 1983 album "Break Out" went triple platinum.
Anita Pointer, one of the Grammy-winning Pointer Sisters whose string of pop, country and R&B hits in the 1970s and '80s included I'm So Excited, Jump (For My Love) and Fire, has died of cancer on Saturday at age 74.