Bonnie Pointer, one of the two founding members of the Pointer Sisters, has died at age 69.
If the Pointers had an edgy member, it was Bonnie, who was described as “brash and sassy” in an early profile and who left the group in 1977. “I’m adventurous,” she said in 1985. ”I like taking a risk. I wanted to see what I could do on my own.” Signing a solo contract with Motown, Bonnie had a hit out of the gate with the disco smash, “Heaven Must Have Sent You.”
The other sisters, still calling themselves the Pointer Sisters, went on to even great success. The year after Bonnie left, they retooled their sound and image with a hit version of Bruce Springsteen’s “Fire.” From then until the mid Eighties, they had hit after hit: the slinky “He’s So Shy” and “Slow Hand,” the exuberant “I’m So Excited,” “Neutron Dance” and “Jump .
Bonnie never repeated the success of “Heaven Must have Sent You” and endured her share of struggles. In 2011, she“I was the first one to step out and start singing in public,” Bonnie said in 1979. “I wanted to be in show business, and everyone else was sort of, ‘Well we might not make it — it’s going to be hard.'”
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