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Gregg Rolie's Birth Card: The King of Clubs

1998 Performers with Santana; 2017 Performers with Journey

Born June 17, 1947

The Master Leader

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

Gregg Alan Rolie (born June 17, 1947) is an American keyboardist, singer and songwriter. The birth-card coordinate for June 17 is the King of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1998 Performers with Santana; 2017 Performers with Journey induction.

Rock Hall record

The King of Clubs coordinate

Gregg Rolie's birthday maps to the King of Clubs (The Master Leader). 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 Gregg Rolie. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You make the intellectual call in the open and you can revise it.

Live King of Clubs meaning page

Gregg Rolie in the public record

Rolie was a founding member and original lead vocalist of both Santana and Journey. He also helmed rock group the Storm, performed in Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band until 2021, and since 2001 with his Gregg Rolie Band. Rolie is a two-time inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, having been inducted both as a member of Santana in 1998 and as a member of Journey in 2017. Rolie was born in Seattle, Washington, United States. Prior to Santana, he played with a group called William Penn and His Pals while attending Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, California 1965, his senior year. In 1966, Rolie joined Carlos Santana and others to form the Santana Blues Band, which was later shortened simply to Santana. As a co-founding member of Santana, Rolie was part of the band's first wave of success, including an appearance at the Woodstock Music and Art Festival in 1969 and central roles in several hit albums. He was their original lead vocalist, with his voice appearing on well-known Santana songs such as "Black Magic Woman" (US #4), "Oye Como Va", "No One To Depend On" and "Evil Ways".

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

Where the record meets the 8 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 Gregg Rolie, and not a forecast of induction.

Cards in Gregg Rolie's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → 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.

You take the hard lead and you stay with the work after the call is made.

8♠ — Karma — Environment, fixed to the K♣, from the published 8 of Spades meaning

Similar to his work with Santana and Journey, Rolie played keyboards and was a co-lead vocalist on several tracks of the band's first, eponymous, album, which spent 17 weeks on the Billboard albums chart peaking at #133 and spawned the hit singles "I've Got a Lot to Learn About Love," and "Show Me the Way." Despite this success, Interscope Records shelved the band's second album, Eye Of The Storm, which was recorded in 1993.

Paired on shared wording: lead, work.

Also on the record

  1. He also became well known for his skill on the Hammond B3 organ, with solos on many of the aforementioned hits.
  2. He has song-writing credits on many tracks from this period.
  3. However, persistent differences with Carlos Santana regarding the musical direction of the band led Rolie to leave in 1972.
  4. In 1973 Rolie joined a new band with ex-Santana guitarist Neal Schon.

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FAQ

What is Gregg Rolie's birth card?
The King of Clubs. June 17 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 Gregg Rolie's dates come from?
Birth date 1947-06-17 is the day-precision date on Gregg Rolie'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, Gregg Rolie) + Wikidata CC0 (Q1335067). Birth date 1947-06-17 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).