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Hiro Yamamoto's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds

2025 Performers with Soundgarden

Born April 13, 1961

The Businessman

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

Hiro D. The birth-card coordinate for April 13 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2025 Performers with Soundgarden induction.

Rock Hall record

The 8 of Diamonds coordinate

Hiro Yamamoto's birthday maps to the 8 of Diamonds (The Businessman). 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 Hiro Yamamoto. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You run the money system in the open and you can explain the call.

Live 8 of Diamonds meaning page

Hiro Yamamoto in the public record

Yamamoto (born April 13, 1961) is an American bassist who was a founding member of grunge band Soundgarden, along with Kim Thayil and Chris Cornell, in 1984. He left the band in 1989; two years later, Yamamoto started the independent rock band Truly together with Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel and Robert Roth from The Storybook Krooks. In 2016, Yamamoto co-founded the surf trio Stereo Donkey. In 2025, Yamamoto was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a founding member of Soundgarden. Hiro Yamamoto is the founding bassist of Soundgarden. He performed with Cornell, Thayil, and drummer Scott Sundquist on the Deep Six compilation, and performed with Cornell, Thayil, and drummer Matt Cameron on the EPs Screaming Life, Fopp, and Loudest Love, as well as on the albums Ultramega OK and Louder Than Love. He departed the band following the spring 1989 European tour. Jason Everman replaced him on the bass briefly, after which Ben Shepherd became the permanent bassist.

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

Where the record meets the 8 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 Hiro Yamamoto, and not a forecast of induction.

Cards in Hiro Yamamoto'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.

Strategic thinking about resources and power

8♦ — Birth Card, from the published 8 of Diamonds meaning

In 2016, Yamamoto co-founded the surf trio Stereo Donkey.

Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: founded.

Also on the record

  1. After Yamamoto departed, he completed the requirements for his master's degree in physical chemistry at Western Washington University.
  2. He is currently the Chief of Organic Chemistry at Edge Analytical in Burlington, Washington.
  3. As did Cornell, Thayil, Cameron, and Shepherd, Yamamoto actively wrote songs for the band: "Heretic" (first version on Deep Six, second on Loudest Love) ... lyrics "Tears to Forget" (first version on Deep Six, second on Screaming Life) music (co-written) "All Your Lies" (first version on Deep Six, second on Ultramega OK) music (co-written) "Kingdom of Come" (Fopp) credited to Soundgarden "665" (Ultramega OK) music "667" (Ultramega OK) music "Circle of Power" (Ultramega OK) lyrics, vocals "Nazi Driver" (Ultramega OK) music "Toy Box" (Flower) lyrics, music (co-written) "Power Trip" (Louder Than Love) music "I Awake" (Louder Than Love) ... music "No Wrong No Right" (Louder Than Love) ... music In 1991, Yamamoto formed a three-piece indie band, Truly.
  4. The other members were former Screaming Trees drummer Mark Pickerel and singer Robert Roth.

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FAQ

What is Hiro Yamamoto's birth card?
The 8 of Diamonds. April 13 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 Hiro Yamamoto's dates come from?
Birth date 1961-04-13 is the day-precision date on Hiro Yamamoto'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, Hiro Yamamoto) + Wikidata CC0 (Q461564). Birth date 1961-04-13 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).