Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Al Green's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds
The Businessman
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
In the record
Albert Leornes Greene (born April 13, 1946), known professionally as Al Green, is an American singer, songwriter, pastor and record producer. The birth-card coordinate for April 13 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1995 Performers induction.
Rock Hall record
- 1995 Performers — Al Green
The 8 of Diamonds coordinate
Al Green's birthday maps to the 8 of Diamonds (The Businessman). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Al Green. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call.
Al Green in the public record
He is best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s, including "Tired of Being Alone" (1971), "I'm Still in Love with You" (1972), "Love and Happiness" (1973), "Take Me to the River" (1974), and his signature song, "Let's Stay Together" (1972). Green became an ordained pastor and recorded gospel music during the 1980s. Green was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. He was referred to on the museum's site as being "one of the most gifted purveyors of soul music". He has also been referred to as "The Last of the Great Soul Singers". Green is the winner of 11 Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. He has also received the BMI Icon award and is a Kennedy Center Honors recipient. He was included in Rolling Stone's 2008 list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time", ranking at No.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Al Green (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 2 of Hearts
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Al Green, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Al Green's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 8♦ — Birth Card: The Businessman
- 7♣ — Karma — Environment: The Analytical Creator
- Q♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Wise Guide
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- K♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 10♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- A♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
You keep your needs and theirs in the same conversation, and you let disagreement stay on the table. You're wired for union—you understand yourself best in relationship to another. You read people, harmonize needs, and create the felt sense of "us." Connection isn't a luxury for you; it's how you locate yourself.
He is best known for recording a series of soul hit singles in the early 1970s, including "Tired of Being Alone" (1971), "I'm Still in Love with You" (1972), "Love and Happiness" (1973), "Take Me to the River" (1974), and his signature song, "Let's Stay Together" (1972).
Paired on shared wording: best, stay.
Also on the record
- 65, as well as its 2023 list of the "200 Greatest Singers of All Time", at No.
- 10.
- Green is a canonical Memphis soul artist.
- He collaborated closely with many of Memphis's most notable R&B musicians.
Other inductees with this card
- Adam "MCA" Yauch — 2012 Performers with Beastie Boys
- Al Jardine — 1988 Performers with The Beach Boys
- Billie Joe Armstrong — 2015 Performers with Green Day
- Butch Trucks — 1995 Performers with The Allman Brothers Band
- Dolly Parton — 2022 Performers
- Eric Burdon — 1994 Performers with The Animals
- Hillel Slovak — 2012 Performers with Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Hiro Yamamoto — 2025 Performers with Soundgarden
- Ilan Rubin — 2020 Performers with Nine Inch Nails
- Jack Casady — 1996 Performers with Jefferson Airplane
- Jackie Wilson — 1987 Performers
- Janis Joplin — 1995 Performers
- 13 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Al Green's birth card?
- The 8 of Diamonds. April 13 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?
- 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 Al Green's dates come from?
- Birth date 1946-04-13 is the day-precision date on Al Green's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: RockHall.com (induction record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Performers list, Al Green) + Wikidata CC0 (Q313260). Birth date 1946-04-13 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).