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Renaldo "Obie" Benson's Birth Card: The 3 of Diamonds
The Success Communicator
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
Renaldo "Obie" Benson (June 14, 1936 – July 1, 2005) was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. The birth-card coordinate for June 14 is the 3 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1990 Performers with The Four Tops induction.
Rock Hall record
- 1990 Performers — inducted member of The Four Tops
The 3 of Diamonds coordinate
Renaldo "Obie" Benson's birthday maps to the 3 of Diamonds (The Success Communicator). 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 Renaldo "Obie" Benson. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You keep more than one path alive without letting any of them stay imaginary.
Renaldo "Obie" Benson in the public record
He was best known as a founding member and the bass singer of Motown group the Four Tops, which he joined in 1953 and continued to perform with for over five decades, until April 8, 2005. He also co-wrote "What's Going On" which became a No. 2 hit for Marvin Gaye in 1971, and which Rolling Stone rated as No. 4 on their List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time released in 2004. Renaldo Benson was born in Detroit, Michigan on June 14, 1936. Benson attended Northern High School in Detroit, Michigan with Lawrence Payton. The pair met Levi Stubbs and Abdul "Duke" Fakir while singing at a friend's birthday party in 1954 and decided to form a group called the Four Aims. Roquel Billy Davis, who was Payton's cousin, was a fifth member of the group for a time and a songwriter for the group.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Renaldo Benson (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 2 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 Renaldo "Obie" Benson, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Renaldo "Obie" Benson's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 3♦ — Birth Card: The Success Communicator
- Q♦ — Karma — Environment: The Prosperous Nurturer
- 6♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Devoted Caregiver
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Mars
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- J♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 9♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- K♥ — 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.
Natural partnership and team-building ability
He also co-wrote "What's Going On" which became a No. 2 hit for Marvin Gaye in 1971, and which Rolling Stone rated as No. 4 on their List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time released in 2004.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: wrote.
Also on the record
- Davis played an instrumental role in the group being signed by Chess Records who were mainly interested in Davis' songwriting ability.
- The group changed their name to the Four Tops to avoid confusion with the Ames Brothers and had one single "Kiss Me Baby" released through Chess which failed to chart.
- The Four Tops left Chess although Davis stayed with the company.
- The group then went to Red Top Records and Riverside Records before signing with Columbia Records where they released "Ain't That Love" in 1960.
Other inductees with this card
- Alan White — 2017 Performers with Yes
- Bobby Hatfield — 2003 Performers with The Righteous Brothers
- Boyd Tinsley — 2024 Performers with Dave Matthews Band
- Christine McVie — 1998 Performers with Fleetwood Mac
- James Honeyman-Scott — 2005 Performers with The Pretenders
- Janet Jackson — 2019 Performers
- Krist Novoselic — 2014 Performers with Nirvana
- Nate Mendel — 2021 Performers with Foo Fighters
- Neil Diamond — 2011 Performers
- Rick Savage — 2019 Performers with Def Leppard
- Rod Argent — 2019 Performers with The Zombies
- Ron McKernan — 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead
- 3 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Renaldo "Obie" Benson's birth card?
- The 3 of Diamonds. June 14 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 Renaldo "Obie" Benson's dates come from?
- Birth date 1936-06-14 is the day-precision date on Renaldo "Obie" Benson'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, Renaldo Benson) + Wikidata CC0 (Q2143277). Birth date 1936-06-14 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).