Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Edward Patten's Birth Card: The Queen of Hearts
The Devoted Nurturer
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 Roy Patten (August 27, 1939 – February 25, 2005) was an American R&B/soul singer, best known as a member of Gladys Knight & the Pips. The birth-card coordinate for August 27 is the Queen of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1996 Performers with Gladys Knight & the Pips induction.
Rock Hall record
- 1996 Performers — inducted member of Gladys Knight & the Pips
The Queen of Hearts coordinate
Edward Patten's birthday maps to the Queen of Hearts (The Devoted Nurturer). 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 Edward Patten. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take care of people from presence, not from scanning for what they might need next.
Edward Patten in the public record
He was a cousin of Gladys Knight. Patten was a member of the group from 1959 until the disbandment in 1989. Patten was a multiple Grammy Award winner, and along with the group, he was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. Edward Patten was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to Thomas S. Patten and Wilhelmina (née Maxwell). His father was a local musician, singer and bandleader. Edward grew up singing in the church and with local "doo-wop" groups in Atlanta. While still a teenager, he married his first wife Katherine (née Smith) in Atlanta at the home of her parents.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Edward Patten (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Edward Patten's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♥ — Birth Card: The Devoted Nurturer
- 9♣ — Karma — Environment: The Humanitarian Builder
- 10♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Completed Mind
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 8♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- K♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♦ — 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.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for Q♥, 9♣, 10♠, 10♣, 4♠, J♠, 8♦, K♠, 3♥, A♣, Q♣, 5♣, 3♦, A♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Also on the record
- He had two children from this marriage, Stephanie A. and Steven A.
- Patten.
- It was in Atlanta that he was invited by William Guest to join the Pips after two members left the group to get married.
- Edward later traveled first to New York after the success of the single "Every Beat of My Heart", and later he and the group, now Gladys Knight & the Pips, moved to Detroit, Michigan, to join Motown Records.
Other inductees with this card
- Alex Lifeson — 2013 Performers with Rush
- Geddy Lee — 2013 Performers with Rush
- Glen Matlock — 2006 Performers with Sex Pistols
- Maurice White — 2000 Performers with Earth, Wind & Fire
- Paul Denman — 2026 Performers with Sade
- Robert Trujillo — 2009 Performers with Metallica
- Zal Yanovsky — 2000 Performers with The Lovin' Spoonful
FAQ
- What is Edward Patten's birth card?
- The Queen of Hearts. August 27 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 Edward Patten's dates come from?
- Birth date 1939-08-27 is the day-precision date on Edward Patten'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, Edward Patten) + Wikidata CC0 (Q4761431). Birth date 1939-08-27 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).