Ruth Pointer

Ruth Pointer
Pointer performing with the Pointer Sisters at the Komen Center Pink Tie Ball in 2006
Background information
Born
Ruth Esther Pointer

(1946-03-19) March 19, 1946
Oakland, California, U.S.
Genres
Occupations
  • Singer
  • songwriter
Years active1966–present
Member ofThe Pointer Sisters
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Ruth Esther Pointer (born March 19, 1946) is an American singer best known as the eldest member of the family vocal group the Pointer Sisters. Pointer joined her sisters in 1972 to make the group a quartet.

Pointer wrote a memoir about the group, Still So Excited!: My Life as a Pointer Sister, published in 2016. She is the last living member of the original family of sisters, but she continues to perform in the Pointer Sisters vocal group with her daughter Issa and her granddaughter Sadako.

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