◇ image via WikipediaBonnie Pointer
Bonnie Pointer is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Marvelettes, Brenda Holloway and The Elgins. Those roots explain a lot about how Bonnie Pointer arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Thelma Houston, Stacy Lattisaw, Amii Stewart, Andrea True Connection and Cheryl Lynn, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Pointer Sisters, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 23 connections around Bonnie Pointer, reaching back through The Marvelettes and forward to The Pointer Sisters. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Patricia Eva "Bonnie" Pointer was an American singer and songwriter, best known as a founding member of the vocal group the Pointer Sisters. Pointer scored several moderate solo hits after leaving the Pointer Sisters in 1977, including a disco cover of the Elgins' "Heaven Must Have Sent You" which peaked at number 11 on September 1, 1979.
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Bonnie Pointer connections
Bonnie Pointer grew out of The Marvelettes, Brenda Holloway and The Elgins, shares an orbit with Thelma Houston, Stacy Lattisaw, Amii Stewart and Andrea True Connection, went on to shape The Pointer Sisters. 23 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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