Cliff Martinez's Birth Card: The 7 of Spades

In the record

Cliff Robert Martinez (born February 5, 1954) is an American musician and composer. The birth-card coordinate for February 5 is the 7 of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2012 Performers with Red Hot Chili Peppers induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2012 Performers — inducted member of Red Hot Chili Peppers

The 7 of Spades coordinate

Cliff Martinez's birthday maps to the 7 of Spades (The Questioning Mind). 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 Cliff Martinez. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You study the hard pattern until you can name it, then you do the next honest thing.

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Cliff Martinez in the public record

Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Since the 1990s, he has worked primarily as a film score composer, writing music for Spring Breakers (2012), The Foreigner (2017), and multiple films by Steven Soderbergh, Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), Solaris (2002), Contagion (2011) and Traffic (2000) and Nicolas Winding Refn, Drive (2011), Only God Forgives (2013), The Neon Demon (2016) and the miniseries Too Old to Die Young (2019). On April 14, 2012, Martinez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Martinez was born in the Bronx, New York City. His grandfather migrated from a small village in Spain to the United States. Raised in Columbus, Ohio, his first job composing was for the popular television show Pee Wee's Playhouse. At the time, however, he was more interested in rock bands, and played drums in a variety of them, mostly in a temporary capacity. After several years drumming for such acts as Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, The Dickies, Lydia Lunch and The Weirdos, in late 1983, Martinez and Jack Sherman were drafted in to join the Red Hot Chili Peppers for the recording of their eponymous first album after Jack Irons and Hillel Slovak left the band to concentrate on their other project at the time, What Is This?.

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

Where the record meets the 7 of Spades

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 Cliff Martinez, and not a forecast of induction.

Penetrating questions and inquiry

Early in his career, Martinez was known as a drummer notably with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band.

Paired on work, health and mastery — the domain ♠ governs in this system. Markers in the record: captain.

Also on the record

1. Martinez also played on the recording of the band's second album Freaky Styley (1985) and its subsequent tour.
2. In 2012 Martinez was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
3. Martinez performed with the band for the first time in 26 years when he joined them along with former drummer Jack Irons on their song, "Give It Away" during the ceremony.
4. In the mid 1980's, Martinez' interests shifted and he began to focus his attention toward film scoring.

Other inductees with this card

• Duff McKagan — 2012 Performers with Guns N' Roses
• Kathy Valentine — 2021 Performers with The Go-Go's
• Ronnie Lane — 2012 Performers with The Small Faces
• Rudolph Isley — 1992 Performers with The Isley Brothers

FAQ

What is Cliff Martinez's birth card?

The 7 of Spades. February 5 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 Cliff Martinez's dates come from?

Birth date 1954-02-05 is the day-precision date on Cliff Martinez'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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