Harry Belafonte's Birth Card: The 9 of Spades

In the record

Harry Belafonte ( BEL-ə-FON-tee; born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. The birth-card coordinate for March 1 is the 9 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of Harry Belafonte's 1989 Kennedy Center Honors.

Kennedy Center Honors record

• 1989 Kennedy Center Honors — Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte is on the 1989 Kennedy Center Honors roster as Harry Belafonte (https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/honors/). Harry Belafonte (Q214959, Wikipedia “Harry Belafonte”) appears here as a person-scope honoree. Harry Belafonte is listed as a person-scope honoree for each year in this pack. Honors in this pack for Harry Belafonte: 1989 Harry Belafonte. Harry Belafonte's English Wikipedia title is the same string as the harvested name. Birth date 1927-03-01 is the Wikipedia infobox day for Harry Belafonte, verified against Wikidata P569 1927-03-01 (match). Kennedy Center artist-bio date status for Harry Belafonte is not_published. The harvested card symbol for March 1 is 9♠. A public death date of April 25, 2023 (2023-04-25) is listed on Wikidata P570 for Harry Belafonte. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Belafonte is the Wikipedia article used for Harry Belafonte. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for Harry Belafonte. It only names the calendar coordinate for March 1 and the Honors years already listed for Harry Belafonte.

The 9 of Spades coordinate

Harry Belafonte was born March 1, 1927 (1927-03-01). Month 3 and day 1 give solar value 48, which is the 9 of Spades (The Idealistic Mind). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1927 is unused, so Harry Belafonte's 1927 birth year does not move the card. The 9 of Spades does not predict a Kennedy Center Honor and is not a verdict on Harry Belafonte. Quoted system copy for the 9 of Spades, not a biography of Harry Belafonte: You complete the hard stretch and put the lesson down. Your mind is oriented toward universal truths and highest principles. You think in terms of what could be and what should be. Your ideas are idealistic. Harvested gifts listed for the 9 of Spades: Visionary thinking and universal perspective; Ability to see highest potential truth; Idealistic principles and ethics; Natural inspiration toward greater good. Harvested life-direction line for the 9 of Spades: Your curriculum is learning that ideals only matter if they're implemented. You're learning to ground vision in reality.

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Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Harry Belafonte was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist.

Harry Belafonte in the public record

Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Belafonte was best known for his recordings of "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)", "Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)", "Jamaica Farewell", and "Mary's Boy Child". He recorded and performed in many genres, including blues, folk, gospel, show tunes, and American standards. He also starred in films such as Carmen Jones (1954), Island in the Sun (1957), Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), Buck and the Preacher (1972), and Uptown Saturday Night (1974). He made his final feature film appearance in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018). Harry Belafonte considered the actor, singer, and activist Paul Robeson to be a mentor. Belafonte was also a close confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and acted as the American Civil Liberties Union celebrity ambassador for juvenile justice issues. He was also a vocal critic of the policies of the George W.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Harry Belafonte (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the cards

No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 9♠, 6♠, K♥, J♠, 10♣, 7♣, 2♥, K♦, 6♥, 4♣, 2♦, 8♣, 6♦, 4♠, 10♥, 10♦, 8♠, A♥, A♦, Q♦. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast an honor.

Also on the record

1. Bush and first Donald Trump administrations.
2. Belafonte won three Grammy Awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Tony Award.
3. In 1989, he received the Kennedy Center Honors.
4. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994.

Other honorees with this card

• Alvin Ailey — 1988 Kennedy Center Honors
• Roger Daltrey — 2008 Kennedy Center Honors with The Who

FAQ

What is Harry Belafonte's birth card?

The 9 of Spades. March 1 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Harry Belafonte's year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Kennedy Center Honor?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Harry Belafonte's dates and Honors credits come from?

Birth date 1927-03-01 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Harry Belafonte, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Honoree identity comes from the Wikipedia Kennedy Center Honors roster, which cites Kennedy Center pages. The Honors line is 1989 Kennedy Center Honors. Kennedy Center artist-bio date status is not_published. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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