![]() While getting ready for her showcase, Sparkle suffers a nose bleed in the dressing room, ruining her dress. Sparkle also extends an invitation to her mother to see the show, but Emma seems uninterested.Įmma goes to visit Sister in prison and the two reconcile. Sparkle reaches out to Stix to help her set up the showcase, and the couple eventually rekindle their relationship. ![]() She secures a meeting with Larry at Columbia and convinces him to give her a shot at a solo career, on the condition that she first put on a musical showcase. Later, Sparkle moves out of Emma's home and rents her own apartment. Sparkle visits Sister in prison, confiding she turned down a marriage proposal from Stix and broke up with him. Emma proudly hugs Dee before she departs. She arrives home to find Dee packing up to leave, with Dee revealing she was accepted to Meharry Medical College and must enroll promptly to receive her scholarship money. Hearing that Sister has been arrested and charged with manslaughter (she will be released in 3 years at least), Emma leads her church choir in a performance of " His Eye is on the Sparrow". Sister orders Sparkle and Dee to leave the house and accepts blame when police arrive. Though Dee tries to administer CPR, the sisters realize he is dead and all start crying. Satin is struck by Dee with a tire iron and falls unconscious. When Satin shows up and punches Sparkle, the three sisters fight Satin in self-defense. At Satin and Sister's home, Dee and Sparkle plea for Sister to leave and get help for her drug problem. At home, Sparkle's relationship with Emma becomes increasingly strained as she is pressured into abandoning her love of singing.Ī meeting with Columbia Records is derailed when Dee and Sparkle find Sister in a back room looking for a cocaine fix. Dee and Sparkle try to get Sister to leave Satin and come back home with them, but are unsuccessful. Stix introduces the girls to Larry Robinson, a Columbia Records executive who offers to sign them as a group. However Dee tells her sister to not give up like that as it is who she is. Emma catches a glimpse of their performance on television but is resentful that her daughters have gone against her wishes to pursue singing. Sparkle, Sister and Dee manage to perform "Something He Can Feel". This becomes apparent to Dee and Sparkle when, in preparation to open for Aretha Franklin on a television show, Sister walks into the dressing room with a black eye and bruises. At first Sister is happily married and has great life but Satine's true colors start to show.Īs the girls' fame continues to rise, Sister's relationship with Satin becomes physically abusive and she spirals into drug abuse. Sparkle tries to reason with Sister but she won't have it and moves out. Sister decides to leave with Satin and Emma banishes her from returning home. ![]() In response, Sister lashes out at Emma, criticizing her for having her as a teen, leaving her to raise her younger siblings instead of going to school like them as Emma was out drinking and trying to pursue a music career. When a newly engaged Sister brings Satin over for a family dinner, an argument erupts after Satin makes insulting remarks and Emma makes her dislike for him known to everyone at the table. Sister gains the attention of stand-up comedian Satin Struthers, whom Sister dumps Levi for. The sisters become a popular act and are invited to perform at clubs throughout Detroit. With Stix as their manager, the three sisters enter the talent competition and wow the crowd with their performance of "Hooked on Your Love". Stix becomes romantically involved with Sparkle, and his cousin Levi also becomes involved with Sister. Though Sister is initially undecided, Sparkle convinces her that if the group wins a local talent show, she could use the prize money to finally move out of Emma's home. ![]() The girls are raised by their mother Emma, who disapproves of her daughters singing outside of church.ĭee agrees to join the girl group, reasoning she will perform until she has earned enough money to pay for medical school. One day, they approached by aspiring record label executive Stix to form a music group after he saw Sister perform a song that Sparkle wrote at a nightclub. Dee however is starting to get tired of covering for them. They manage to get home in time for their mother to find them in bed. While Sparkle is the best singer, Sister is able to get the most attention. Sparkle and Sister often go out to sing at different places. In Detroit, Michigan in 1968, the three Anderson sisters-19-year-old Sparkle, middle sister Delores aka Dee, and eldest Tammy aka "Sister"-are three sisters who love to sing. All while trying to avoid the eyes of their mother and becoming famous. Three singing teenage sisters who form a girl group in the late 1950s in Detroit, Michigan in 1968 during the Motown era. ![]()
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