Mavis Staples's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

In the record

Mavis Staples (born July 10, 1939) is an American rhythm and blues and gospel singer and civil rights activist. The birth-card coordinate for July 10 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1999 Performers with The Staple Singers induction.

Rock Hall record

• 1999 Performers — inducted member of The Staple Singers

The 5 of Diamonds coordinate

Mavis Staples'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 Mavis Staples. 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.

Live 5 of Diamonds meaning page

Mavis Staples in the public record

She rose to fame as a member of her family's band the Staple Singers, of which she is the last surviving member. During her time in the group, she recorded the hit singles "I'll Take You There" and "Let's Do It Again". In 1969, Staples released her self-titled debut solo album. Staples continued to release solo albums throughout the following decades and collaborated with artists such as Aretha Franklin, Prince, Arcade Fire, Nona Hendryx, Ry Cooder, David Byrne, and former romantic partner Bob Dylan. Her eighth studio album You Are Not Alone (2010), earned critical acclaim, and became her first album as a soloist to reach number one on a Billboard chart, peaking atop the Top Gospel Albums chart. It also earned Staples her first Grammy Award win. Following this, she released the albums One True Vine (2013), Livin' on a High Note (2016), If All I Was Was Black (2017), and We Get By (2019); she is also featured on the single "Nina Cried Power" by Hozier. As member of the Staple Singers, Staples is the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and has won five solo Grammy Awards, including one for Album of the Year as a featured artist on We Are by Jon Batiste.

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

Where the record meets the 8 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 Mavis Staples, and not a forecast of induction.

You run a knowledge system other people can follow, and you stand behind the call. Your mind calculates power, influence, and success. You're ambitious and know how to leverage ideas into position. You think like a chess player.

Following this, she released the albums One True Vine (2013), Livin' on a High Note (2016), If All I Was Was Black (2017), and We Get By (2019); she is also featured on the single "Nina Cried Power" by Hozier.

Paired on shared wording: following, power.

Also on the record

1. Named one of the "Greatest Singers of all Time" by Rolling Stone; Staples was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999) and the Gospel Music Hall of Fame (2018), as a member of The Staple Singers.
2. In 2016, she was made a Kennedy Center Honoree.
3. The following year, she was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame as a soloist.
4. In 2019, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honored her with their inaugural Rock Hall Honors Award for her solo work.

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
• Jimmy Reed — 1991 Performers
• John Hartman — 2020 Performers with The Doobie Brothers
• Kurt Cobain — 2014 Performers with Nirvana
• Pete Farndon — 2005 Performers with The Pretenders
• Roger Waters — 1996 Performers with Pink Floyd
• 8 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Mavis Staples's birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. July 10 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 Mavis Staples's dates come from?

Birth date 1939-07-10 is the day-precision date on Mavis Staples'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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