June Pointer

June Pointer Whitmore ( born November 30, 1953 in Oakland ( California ), † April 11, 2006 in Santa Monica ) was an American singer and member of the Pointer Sisters.

Life

June Antoinette Pointer and her three older sisters Ruth, Anita and Bonnie learned singing in a church choir in Oakland. Even as a 16 -year-old June met with Bonnie under the name Pointers -A Pair in clubs on.

1973 published the four sisters their debut album, The Pointer Sisters, 1975, she won a Grammy Award for her song Fairytale. Other hits were I'm So Excited, Fire, Slow Hand, Automatic and Jump ( For My Love ).

During her career, June Pointer took drugs and was addicted to alcohol. In the 1980s, she missed concerts regularly, so that her sisters had to occur without it. In April 2004, she was sentenced in Hollywood for possession of cocaine.

June Pointer, who posed for an issue of Playboy, recorded in 1983 and 1989, two solo albums and left the Pointer Sisters finally completely.

From 1978 to 1991 she was married to William Oliver Whitmore; the couple remained childless.

June Pointer died on 11 April 2006 at the age of 52 years to cancer.

Discography

Albums as a solo artist:

• Baby Sister, 1983 ( with the single " Ready For Some Action " )
• June Pointer, 1989 ( with the single " Tight On Time (I'll Fit U In) " )

Filmography

• French Exit, 1995
• We Are the World, 1985
• Car Wash, 1976