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Claydes Charles Smith's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds
The Dynamic Entrepreneur
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
Claydes "Charles" Smith (born Claydes Eugene Smith; September 6, 1948 – June 20, 2006) was an American musician best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of the group Kool & the Gang. The birth-card coordinate for September 6 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2024 Performers with Kool & the Gang induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2024 Performers — inducted member of Kool & the Gang
The 5 of Diamonds coordinate
Claydes Charles Smith's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). 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 Claydes Charles Smith. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.
Claydes Charles Smith in the public record
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, he was introduced to jazz guitar by his father in the early 1960s. In the late 1960s, he joined with Ronald Bell (later Khalis Bayyan), Robert "Kool" Bell, George Brown, Dennis Thomas and Robert "Spike" Mickens to become Kool & the Gang. His cool jazz stylings and octave runs, reminiscent of Wes Montgomery but uniquely his own, enriched the music of the group. His playing on the hit "Summer Madness" is a fine example of his work. Kool & the Gang blended jazz, funk, R&B, and pop. The group remained popular from the 1960s through the 1980s. Smith stopped touring in January 2006 due to illness. In 2024, Smith was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as a member of Kool & the Gang.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Claydes Charles Smith (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 5 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 Claydes Charles Smith, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Claydes Charles Smith's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 5♦ — Birth Card: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- 3♣ — Karma — Environment: The Creative Communicator
- 9♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Universal Provider
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- J♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- K♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- J♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 4♦ — 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.
Quick adaptation to market changes
Claydes "Charles" Smith (born Claydes Eugene Smith; September 6, 1948 – June 20, 2006) was an American musician best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of the group Kool & the Gang.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: founder.
Also on the record
- Smith's family included six children: Claydes A.
- Smith, Justin Smith, Aaron Corbin, August Williams, Uranus Smith-Garay, and Tyteen Humes.
- He died in Maplewood, New Jersey, on June 20, 2006, aged 57.
- He is buried in Westfield, New Jersey's Fairview Cemetery.
Other inductees with this card
- Bobby Darin — 1990 Performers
- Bun E. Carlos — 2016 Performers with Cheap Trick
- David Byrne — 2002 Performers with Talking Heads
- Dusty Springfield — 1999 Performers
- Gene Cornish — 1997 Performers with The (Young) Rascals
- Jack Bruce — 1993 Performers with Cream
- Jimmy Reed — 1991 Performers
- John Hartman — 2020 Performers with The Doobie Brothers
- Kurt Cobain — 2014 Performers with Nirvana
- Mavis Staples — 1999 Performers with The Staple Singers
- Pete Farndon — 2005 Performers with The Pretenders
- Roger Waters — 1996 Performers with Pink Floyd
- 8 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Claydes Charles Smith's birth card?
- The 5 of Diamonds. September 6 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 Claydes Charles Smith's dates come from?
- Birth date 1948-09-06 is the day-precision date on Claydes Charles Smith'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, Claydes Charles Smith) + Wikidata CC0 (Q5130076). Birth date 1948-09-06 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).