Anita Pointer Children: Meet Jada Harper

Anita Pointer was an American singer-songwriter who was a founding member of the Pointer Sisters.

Anita Pointer had only one child, Jada Rashawn Pointer. Jada was born on April 9, 1966, and tragically died in June 2003, at the age of 37, from cancer.

Anita Pointer’s daughter was the inspiration for one of The Pointer Sisters’ most famous songs, “Jada,” which appeared on their debut album.

Anita admitted in an interview that the loss of her daughter Jada, who died in 2003, was the biggest blow and still haunts her today.

‘I started feeling – was this worth it? I worked so hard to get us a better place to live and get her into schools. My mother really took care of her, because we would always be gone.

‘I will never get over it. I cry almost every day for my baby. I loved her so much, she was my only child. And I think about her all the time and I am very angry with the world for taking my baby.

‘I just feel like something could have been done. It has put me in a place where I will be suffering for the rest of my life, because I will never get over this.

Her daughter’s death came three years after her mother, Sarah, who had been key in helping raise her daughter, passed away.

Anita Pointer died from cancer at her home in Los Angeles on December 31, 2022, at the age of 74.