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Jimmy Destri's Birth Card: The 8 of Diamonds

2006 Performers with Blondie

Born April 13, 1954

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

Jimmy Destri (born James Mollica, April 13, 1954) is an American musician and the original and longest-serving keyboardist for the band Blondie. The birth-card coordinate for April 13 is the 8 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2006 Performers with Blondie induction.

Rock Hall record

The 8 of Diamonds coordinate

Jimmy Destri'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 Jimmy Destri. 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

Jimmy Destri in the public record

Destri is of Italian descent. His father was a novelist who also wrote screenplays and eventually advertising copy to support his family while his mother was a housewife. He has a sister, Donna Destri, who is also a singer and did backing vocals for Blondie and Jimmy's own solo record. Destri grew up in Borough Park, Brooklyn, and was raised in his grandmother's house. His uncle played drums for Joey Dee and the Starlighters. He attended Catholic schools and went to Bishop Ford Central Catholic High School, but dropped out to form his first band. He played keyboards in the rock band Blondie, and was one of the principal songwriters for the band along with Chris Stein and Debbie Harry. He rejoined Blondie in 1997.

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

Where the record meets the 7 of Clubs

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 Jimmy Destri, and not a forecast of induction.

Cards in Jimmy Destri'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.

Penetrating analysis and pattern recognition

7♣ — Karma — Environment, fixed to the 8♦, from the published 7 of Clubs meaning

His father was a novelist who also wrote screenplays and eventually advertising copy to support his family while his mother was a housewife.

Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: wrote.

Also on the record

  1. Destri ceased touring with the band in 2004, but remained an official member for several more years.
  2. After he stopped playing with Blondie he worked full time as a drug counselor/therapist at the outpatient recovery center Carnegie Hill Institute in New York City.
  3. In April 2020, he went back to practice as a drug counselor/therapist at Seabrook in New Jersey.
  4. In 2025, in July, some time after the death of his friend and former bandmate Clem Burke, Destri announced that he was being treated for throat cancer.

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FAQ

What is Jimmy Destri'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 Jimmy Destri's dates come from?
Birth date 1954-04-13 is the day-precision date on Jimmy Destri'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, Jimmy Destri) + Wikidata CC0 (Q899333). Birth date 1954-04-13 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).