Anita Pointer

Anita Pointer was a founding member of the Pointer Sisters, the Oakland sibling vocal group who broke barriers regarding gender, race, and genre as they racked up 16 Top 40 pop hits from 1973 through 1985. Pointer sang lead on many of the group's biggest singles, beginning with their breakthrough popularization of Allen Toussaint's "Yes We Can Can," followed shortly thereafter by an original written by Anita and Bonnie Pointer, "Fairytale," the 1975 Grammy-winner of Best Country Vocal Performance. Pointer would go on to co-write other Pointers classics she fronted, such as the...