Anita Marie Pointer (January 23, 1948 – December 31, 2022)

Anita was a founding member of the vocal group the
Pointer Sisters. She died from cancer at her home in
Los Angeles.

Christine Anne McVie (12 July 1943 – 30 November 2022)

Christine McVie, the English musician whose smoky vocals
and romantic lyrics helped catapult the rock group Fleetwood
Mac to international success, died Wednesday after a brief
illness .

In 1998, McVie was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame as a member of Fleetwood Mac, and received the Brit
Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music. She was also
the recipient of two Grammy Awards.

Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle, Washington. Hendrix grew up
playing guitar, imitating blues greats like Muddy Waters as well
as early rockers.

In 1964, he moved to New York and played in coffeehouses,
where bassist Bryan Chandler of the British group the Animals
heard him. Chandler arranged to manage Hendrix and brought
him to London in 1966, where they created the Jimi Hendrix
Experience with bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch
Mitchell.

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970)

Samuel Gooden (September 2, 1934 – August 4, 2022)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Sam Gooden, one of the original members
of the Chicago soul group The Impressions and a member of the
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has died.

His daughter, Gina Griffin, said Gooden died Thursday, a month shy
of his 88th birthday, in his hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, surrounded by his family.

The Impressions formed in the 1950s after Gooden and brothers
Richard and Arthur Brooks met Curtis Mayfield and Jerry Butler
in Chicago.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Singer Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) is
96 today.