Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Albert King's Birth Card: The 9 of Clubs
The Humanitarian Builder
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 King (né Nelson; April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992) was an American guitarist and singer, who is often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential blues guitarists ever. The birth-card coordinate for April 25 is the 9 of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2013 Performers induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2013 Performers — Albert King
The 9 of Clubs coordinate
Albert King's birthday maps to the 9 of Clubs (The Humanitarian Builder). 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 Albert King. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You let a used-up framework go and keep the part that still works.
Albert King in the public record
He is perhaps best known for his popular and influential album Born Under a Bad Sign (1967) and its title track. B. B. King, Freddie King, and he, all unrelated, were known as the "Three Kings of the Blues". The left-handed Albert King was known for his "deep, dramatic sound that was widely imitated by both blues and rock guitarists". He was once nicknamed the "Velvet Bulldozer" because of his smooth singing and large size; he stood taller than average, with sources reporting 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) or 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m), and weighed 250 lb (110 kg), and also because he drove a bulldozer in one of his day jobs early in his career. King was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1983. He was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Albert King (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Albert King's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 9♣ — Birth Card: The Humanitarian Builder
- 6♦ — Karma — Environment: The Generous Provider
- Q♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Devoted Nurturer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Mercury
- K♥ — Life Spread — Mars
- K♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 6♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 4♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- J♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 8♣ — 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.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for 9♣, 6♦, Q♥, 2♥, A♣, 9♠, K♥, K♦, 6♥, 4♣, 2♦, J♠, 8♣, 4♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Also on the record
- In 2023, he was ranked number 22 on Rolling Stone's 250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
Other inductees with this card
- Allen Collins — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Belinda Carlisle — 2021 Performers with The Go-Go's
- Bernie Leadon — 1998 Performers with Eagles
- Björn Ulvaeus — 2010 Performers with ABBA
- Brian May — 2001 Performers with Queen
- Dennis Dunaway — 2011 Performers with Alice Cooper
- Graham Simpson — 2019 Performers with Roxy Music
- Jason Cooper — 2019 Performers with The Cure
- Joey Kramer — 2001 Performers with Aerosmith
- John Lydon — 2006 Performers with Sex Pistols
- Keith Godchaux — 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead
- LaVern Baker — 1991 Performers
- 11 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Albert King's birth card?
- The 9 of Clubs. April 25 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 Albert King's dates come from?
- Birth date 1923-04-25 is the day-precision date on Albert King'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, Albert King) + Wikidata CC0 (Q44809). Birth date 1923-04-25 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).