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Ruth Pointer

Oakland, United States

Ruth Pointer is credited on 447 releases across 112 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1973–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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447

Pressings credited

112

Albums

6

Decades active

100

In collections

Biography

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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Credited work

447 releases · 112 albums · active 1973–2025

  • Performance · 570
  • Other credits · 12

Studios: Westside Studios · Chartmaker Studios · Studio 55, Los Angeles · Lion Share Recording Studios

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