Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Eddie Levert's Birth Card: The Ace of Diamonds
The Wealth Pioneer
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
Edward Willis Levert (born June 16, 1942) is an American singer best known as the lead vocalist of the O'Jays. The birth-card coordinate for June 16 is the Ace of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2005 Performers with The O'Jays induction.
Rock Hall record
- 2005 Performers — inducted member of The O'Jays
The Ace of Diamonds coordinate
Eddie Levert's birthday maps to the Ace of Diamonds (The Wealth Pioneer). 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 Eddie Levert. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a resource in motion because you trust you can make and keep value.
Eddie Levert in the public record
He is the father of sons Edward Jr (born 1964), Gerald (1966–2006) and Sean Levert (1968–2008) and daughter Ryan Levert (2002–2024). Levert was born in Bessemer, Alabama, and was raised in Canton, Ohio, where he moved at the age of six. He attended church regularly and eventually joined the church choir. As Levert continued singing into his teenage years, he became a recognized voice in the church choir, sang in school plays and performed regularly on a gospel radio show. While at high school, he teamed up with classmates Walter Williams, William Powell, Bobby Massey and Bill Isles to form a group called the Triumphs. The Triumphs played locally in Canton opening for different acts, playing 'sock hops'. They traveled to Cincinnati to canvas King Records whose President Sid Nathan changed their name to The Mascots and signed them to his label. The Mascots' popularity grew as their music was broadcast on Cleveland radio stations.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Eddie Levert (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the Ace of Hearts
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 Eddie Levert, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Eddie Levert's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- A♦ — Birth Card: The Wealth Pioneer
- A♥ — Karma — Environment: The Emotional Pioneer
- 2♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Financial Partner
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 5♥ — Life Spread — Venus
- 3♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 3♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 9♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- Q♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♣ — 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.
Courage to initiate genuine emotional connection
He is the father of sons Edward Jr (born 1964), Gerald (1966–2006) and Sean Levert (1968–2008) and daughter Ryan Levert (2002–2024).
Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: father.
Also on the record
- In 1969, The O'Jays signed with Philadelphia International Records where they began to release records under the new label.
- The O'Jays later signed with EMI-Manhattan Records and Levert and Williams began co-writing and producing their own tracks.
- Their EMI debut album, "Let Me Touch You", went to number three R&B and included "Lovin' You", which became a number-one R&B hit in the summer of 1987.
- In 1984, Levert's two sons Gerald and Sean, both still in high school, announced that they wanted to follow their father's musical background.
Other inductees with this card
- Big Joe Turner — 1987 Performers
- Chris Hillman — 1991 Performers with The Byrds
- Dennis Wilson — 1988 Performers with The Beach Boys
- Eddie Van Halen — 2007 Performers with Van Halen
- Gary Rossington — 2006 Performers with Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Glenn Frey — 1998 Performers with Eagles
- Jay-Z — 2021 Performers
- Joe Perry — 2001 Performers with Aerosmith
- Johnny Ramone — 2002 Performers with Ramones
- Keith Relf — 1992 Performers with The Yardbirds
- Luther Vandross — 2026 Performers
- Mark Knopfler — 2018 Performers with Dire Straits
- 3 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Eddie Levert's birth card?
- The Ace of Diamonds. June 16 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 Eddie Levert's dates come from?
- Birth date 1942-06-16 is the day-precision date on Eddie Levert'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, Eddie Levert) + Wikidata CC0 (Q737445). Birth date 1942-06-16 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).