Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Jimmy Reed's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds
The Dynamic Entrepreneur
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
Mathis James Reed (September 6, 1925 – August 29, 1976) was an American blues musician and songwriter. The birth-card coordinate for September 6 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1991 Performers induction.
Rock Hall record
- 1991 Performers — Jimmy Reed
The 5 of Diamonds coordinate
Jimmy Reed's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). 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 Reed. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.
Jimmy Reed in the public record
His particular style of electric blues was popular with a wide variety of audiences. Reed's songs such as "Honest I Do" (1957), "Baby What You Want Me to Do" (1960), "Big Boss Man" (1961), and "Bright Lights, Big City" (1961) appeared on both Billboard magazine's R&B and Hot 100 singles charts. Reed influenced many other musicians, including Elvis Presley, Hank Williams Jr., Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and the Rolling Stones, who recorded his songs. Music critic Cub Koda describes him as "perhaps the most influential bluesman of all," due to his easily accessible style. Reed was born in Dunleith, Mississippi. He learned the harmonica and guitar from his friend Eddie Taylor. After several years of busking and performing there, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1943. He was then drafted into the U.S.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jimmy Reed (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Jimmy Reed's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 5♦ — Birth Card: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- 3♣ — Karma — Environment: The Creative Communicator
- 9♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Universal Provider
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- J♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- 7♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- K♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- J♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 4♦ — 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 5♦, 3♣, 9♦, Q♠, 8♦, 10♦, J♣, 7♠, 2♣, K♣, J♦, 4♥, 4♦, 2♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Also on the record
- Navy and served in World War II.
- He was discharged in 1945 and returned briefly to Mississippi, marrying his girlfriend, Mary (henceforth known as Mama Reed).
- Mama Reed would be an uncredited background singer on many of his recordings, notably the hits "Baby What You Want Me to Do", "Big Boss Man" and "Bright Lights, Big City".
- He then moved to Gary, Indiana, to work at an Armour meat-packing plant.
Other inductees with this card
- Bobby Darin — 1990 Performers
- Bun E. Carlos — 2016 Performers with Cheap Trick
- Claydes Charles Smith — 2024 Performers with Kool & the Gang
- David Byrne — 2002 Performers with Talking Heads
- Dusty Springfield — 1999 Performers
- Gene Cornish — 1997 Performers with The (Young) Rascals
- Jack Bruce — 1993 Performers with Cream
- John Hartman — 2020 Performers with The Doobie Brothers
- Kurt Cobain — 2014 Performers with Nirvana
- Mavis Staples — 1999 Performers with The Staple Singers
- Pete Farndon — 2005 Performers with The Pretenders
- Roger Waters — 1996 Performers with Pink Floyd
- 8 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Jimmy Reed's birth card?
- The 5 of Diamonds. September 6 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 Reed's dates come from?
- Birth date 1925-09-06 is the day-precision date on Jimmy Reed'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 Reed) + Wikidata CC0 (Q435600). Birth date 1925-09-06 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).