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The group was originally comprised of four sisters Ruth (born March 19, 1946), Anita (born January 23, 1948), Bonnie (born July 11, 1951) and June , (born November 30, 1954).
As children the girls were encouraged to sing gospel music by their parents Reverend Elton and Mrs Sarah Pointer, but in their household they were told rock and roll and the blues were "the devil's music", and it was only when they were away from their watchful parents that they could sing these styles of music. They regularly sang at the church but as they grew older their love of other styles of music began to grow. When June brought home a copy of the Elvis Presley record All Shook Up, she was surprised that her mother allowed her to play it, until she discovered that her mother had been pacified by the "B" side of record, "Crying In The Chapel".
After leaving school it was Bonnie who sought a show business career, and she convinced June to join her to form a duo, "The Pointers - A Pair". Shortly after this, Anita quit her job to join the group. They began touring and performing and provided backing vocals for such artists as Grace Slick, Boz ScaggsBoz Scaggs (born William Royce Scaggs June 8, 1944) is a Ohio-born Texan singer, songwriter and guitarist. After learning guitar at the age of 12, he met Steve Miller at a local high school in Dallas, Texas. In 1959, he became vocalist for Miller's band T and Elvin Bishop , and it was while supporting Bishop at a nightclub appearance that the sisters were signed to a recording deal. The resulting single failed to win an audience but the sisters were enjoying themselves, and the temptation to join them finally overwhelmed Ruth. Before they began to record their first album, the trio had become a quartet.
They agreed that they did not want to follow the current trend of pop musicDepending on context, pop music is either an abbreviation of popular music or, more recently, a term for a sub- genre of it. The subgenre of pop is perhaps the most widely crowd-pleasing form of all popular music. The defining musical characteristics of t, but wanted to create an original sound that combined jazz, scatScat singing is vocalizing either wordlessly or with nonsense words and syllables as employed by jazz singers who create the equivalent of an instrumental solo using only the voice. Thus it is a type of voice instrumental. While the use of nonsense syllab and be-bop music. In searching for a visual style they remembered the poverty of their childhood and their mother's ability to improvise, and used their experience to assemble a collection of vintage 1940s clothes from various thrift shops, that would comprise their costumes and give them the distinctive look they were searching for.
They made their debut performance at the TroubadorFor the article about the night club in West Hollywood, California, see: Troubadour (nightclub). A troubador (or troubadour was a composer and performer of songs in particular styles during the Middle Ages in Europe. The word troubadour comes from the Occ nightclub in Los AngelesThis article is about the city in California. For other uses of 'Los Angeles' see Los Angeles (disambiguation The City of Los Angeles widely known by its abbreviation L. is a large coastal metropolis in Southern California in the western United States. in May 1973Events January events January 1 United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community now known as the European Union January 3 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led and the reaction from the crowd was enthusiastic. Shortly after they made their television debut on "The Helen Reddy Show".