Bernie Worrell's Birth Card: The 2 of Diamonds

In the record

George Bernard Worrell, Jr. (April 19, 1944 – June 24, 2016) was an American keyboardist and record producer, best known as a founding member of the Parliament-Funkadelic collective and a touring member of Talking Heads in the 1980s. The birth-card coordinate for April 19 is the 2 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic induction.

Rock Hall record

• 1997 Performers — inducted member of Parliament-Funkadelic

The 2 of Diamonds coordinate

Bernie Worrell's birthday maps to the 2 of Diamonds (The Financial Partner). 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 Bernie Worrell. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You name the exchange out loud and keep it fair for both sides.

Live 2 of Diamonds meaning page

Bernie Worrell in the public record

He also worked with such producers and musicians as Keith Richards, Yoko Ono, Bill Laswell, Mos Def, Sly and Robbie, Fela Kuti, and Jack Bruce. The New York Times journalist Jon Pareles described Worrell as "the kind of sideman who is as influential as some bandleaders" and stated that he "indelibly changed the sound of funk and hip-hop." Worrell was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 as a member of Parliament-Funkadelic. He also appeared with Talking Heads when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. Worrell was the uncle of rapper and actor Chino XL. George Bernard Worrell, Jr. was born on April 19, 1944, in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Plainfield, New Jersey, where his family moved when he was eight. His father was a truck driver and his mother sang in church choirs. He was a musical prodigy; by age 3 he was taking piano lessons, at the age of 8 he wrote his first concerto, and when he was 10 years old he performed with members of the Washington Symphony of Washington, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Juilliard School in New York City and graduated from Boston's New England Conservatory of Music in 1967.

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

Where the record meets the 2 of Diamonds

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 Bernie Worrell, and not a forecast of induction.

You name the exchange out loud and keep it fair for both sides. You understand value exchange and partnership in material terms. You're good at splitting bills, sharing assets, creating fair deals. Your mind works in reciprocity.

He also worked with such producers and musicians as Keith Richards, Yoko Ono, Bill Laswell, Mos Def, Sly and Robbie, Fela Kuti, and Jack Bruce.

Paired on shared wording: bill, worked.

Also on the record

1. The school would award him an honorary Doctor of Music degree in May 2016.
2. As a college student, Worrell played organ with an Episcopal church, accompanied a Jewish men's choir, and backed local group Chubby & The Turnpikes (which eventually evolved into Tavares).
3. When Worrell first met George Clinton, Worrell was the musical director for the R&B singer Maxine Brown.
4. At that time, Clinton, who was also a native of Plainfield, led the Parliaments, a doo-wop group based out of a local barber shop where he worked.

Other inductees with this card

• Al Rex — 2012 Performers with The Comets
• Alan Price — 1994 Performers with The Animals
• Ali Shaheed Muhammad — 2024 Performers with A Tribe Called Quest
• Andy Bell — 2026 Performers with Oasis
• Art Garfunkel — 1990 Performers with Simon & Garfunkel
• Bill Bruford — 2017 Performers with Yes
• Brad Whitford — 2001 Performers with Aerosmith
• Bruce Palmer — 1997 Performers with Buffalo Springfield
• Chris Vrenna — 2020 Performers with Nine Inch Nails
• Dave Stewart — 2022 Performers with Eurythmics
• Etta James — 1993 Performers
• Ice Cube — 2016 Performers with N.W.A
• 15 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Bernie Worrell's birth card?

The 2 of Diamonds. April 19 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 Bernie Worrell's dates come from?

Birth date 1944-04-19 is the day-precision date on Bernie Worrell'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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