The group, originating from Oakland, California, was originally formed by Anita and her sisters June (deceased in April 2006), Bonnie (deceased in June 2020) and Ruth. They had started singing in the church where their father was a pastor in Oakland.

 

The Pointer Sisters, initially influenced by jazz, be-bop and gospel, released their first album in 1973 and won three Grammy Awards during their career. They were invited to Nashville’s legendary Grand Ole Opry, a first for black artists.

 

Bonnie launched her solo career in 1977, but that didn’t stop her sisters from having more hits in the 1980s.

Before Tik Tok who democratized the fashion of the playback on the networks, the specialist was Keenan Cahill. The Internet star died this Thursday in a Chicago hospital when he was only 27 years old.

 

He accumulated millions of views on his YouTube channel when he was only 15 years old. Keenan Cahill, who became successful in the very early 2010s, died on Thursday, a few days after an open-heart surgery that he himself had announced on Instagram. The young man adept at playback was suffering from the disease of Maroteaux-Lamy, where his dwarfism in particular, was only 27 years.

Keenan Cahill found success with simple videos filmed in his bedroom. His first video in which he filmed himself singing lip-synching to Katy Perry, now has over 58 million views. A performance that allowed him to collaborate with several artists for his videos. We note Jennifer Aniston, Flo Rida, Cody Simpson, Justin Bieber, 50 Cent or even Doc Gynéco.

 

Several personalities have paid tribute to him on social networks.

The American drummer Fred White, of the funk group Earth, Wind & Fire died at the age of 67, announced Monday his brother and a former member of the musical group.

  

Born in 1955 in Chicago (Illinois, north), White had started playing drums at a young age. During his career, he won six Grammy Awards with the legendary funk band formed in 1969 by his brother, Maurice White, who died in 2016. “Our family is saddened today by the loss of an incredible and talented family member,” wrote another of his brothers, Verdine White, in a post on Instagram, recalling that he had “gold records from the age of 16…!”

Earth, Wind & Fire quickly rose to prominence in the 1970s, becoming one of the first to break down racial taboos in pop music, and enjoyed tremendous success in both the white and African-American communities. In 1979, the group was the first African-American band to perform to a sold-out crowd at New York’s prestigious Madison Square Garden.

  

On the band’s official Instagram page, a video was posted of White performing a drum solo at a 1979 concert in Germany accompanied by the message “Rest in Love.” He went on to work with other artists, including soul singer Deniece Williams.

White, as a member of Earth, Wind & Fire, was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2000.

The band was known not only for its songs, but also for its high-energy shows, with a strong presence of horns and a kalimba, an African percussion instrument made of metal flakes.

   

Without ever having completely left the scene, the group experienced a resurgence of notoriety after the election of President Barack Obama, who invited them to be among the first artists to perform after he entered the White House in 2009.