Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Ben E. King's Birth Card: The 9 of Hearts
The Compassionate Idealist
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
Benjamin Earl King (né Nelson; September 28, 1938 – April 30, 2015) was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. The birth-card coordinate for September 28 is the 9 of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1988 Performers with The Drifters induction.
Rock Hall record
- 1988 Performers — inducted member of The Drifters
The 9 of Hearts coordinate
Ben E. King's birthday maps to the 9 of Hearts (The Compassionate Idealist). 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 Ben E. King. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You stay kind without picking up what is not yours.
Ben E. King in the public record
He rose to prominence as one of the principal lead singers of the R&B vocal group the Drifters, singing the lead vocals on three of their biggest hit singles: "There Goes My Baby", "This Magic Moment", and "Save the Last Dance for Me" (their only US number one hit). As a soloist, King is best known as the singer and co-composer of "Stand by Me", which became a US top-10 hit, both in 1961 and later in 1986 (when it was used as the theme to the film of the same name), and a number-one hit in the United Kingdom the following year. The single was also placed on the RIAA's list of Songs of the Century. His 1975 single "Supernatural Thing" became a top-five hit on the Billboard Hot 100. King was also the original recording artist of songs such as "Spanish Harlem", "I (Who Have Nothing)", "So Much Love", "Don't Play That Song (You Lied)", "We're Gonna Groove", and "Till I Can't Take It Anymore", all of which have been covered by multiple artists to varying degrees of success. King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988, as a member of the Drifters, and has been nominated as a solo artist. Along with the Drifters' "There Goes My Baby", King's songs "Stand by Me" and "Spanish Harlem" also appeared on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. He was inducted alongside the Drifters into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2000, as well as the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012 with the Towering song award.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Ben E. 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 Ben E. King's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- J♣ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Neptune
- K♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 5♦ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- 3♣ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Creative Communicator
- 9♦ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Universal Provider
- 4♥ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Emotional Foundation Builder
- 4♦ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Financial Foundation Builder
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♥, 7♦, 5♦, 3♣, 9♦, 7♣, Q♠, J♣, 7♠, 2♣, K♣, J♦, 4♥, 4♦. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Other inductees with this card
- Bob Burns — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Bootsy Collins — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
- Clem Burke — 2006 Performers with Blondie
- Donald "Duck" Dunn — 1992 Performers with Booker T. & the M.G.'s
- John Phillips — 1998 Performers with The Mamas & the Papas
- Maurice Gibb — 1997 Performers with Bee Gees
- Rick Nielsen — 2016 Performers with Cheap Trick
- Robin Gibb — 1997 Performers with Bee Gees
FAQ
- What is Ben E. King's birth card?
- The 9 of Hearts. September 28 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 Ben E. King's dates come from?
- Birth date 1938-09-28 is the day-precision date on Ben E. 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, Ben E. King) + Wikidata CC0 (Q356140). Birth date 1938-09-28 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).