Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Sam Gooden's Birth Card: The 9 of Diamonds
The Universal Provider
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
Samuel Gooden (September 2, 1934 – August 4, 2022) was an American soul singer. The birth-card coordinate for September 2 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1991 Performers with The Impressions induction.
Rock Hall record
- 1991 Performers — inducted member of The Impressions
The 9 of Diamonds coordinate
Sam Gooden's birthday maps to the 9 of Diamonds (The Universal Provider). 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 Sam Gooden. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You give in a way you can sustain, and you let someone give back.
Sam Gooden in the public record
He was best known for being an original member of the successful 1991 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted R&B group The Impressions, from its beginnings as The Roosters in the 1950s. Though often uncredited, his smooth voice can often be heard trading lines with lead singer Curtis Mayfield (most notably on "It's All Right") or his replacement, Leroy Hutson, on quite a number of songs. Gooden also sang lead vocals on a handful of Impressions tunes, such as "Aware Of Love" and the group's cover of "I Wanna Be Around". His distinctive bass vocals can also be heard on the group's Top 20 smashes "Gypsy Woman", "Talking About My Baby", and People Get Ready, along with their chart hit, "I Been Trying", (later covered by Eric Clapton). Gooden and the group recorded and performed until his death in 2022. He was inducted with the group in 1991 into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Gooden original member and founder can be seen with Impressions members Fred Cash and Curtis Mayfield (via archive footage) in the group's first-ever extended interview in the 2008 DVD Movin On Up – The Message and The Music of Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions, which also features a special poem dedicated to the group written and performed by actor Clifton Davis. Gooden died of a heart attack in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on August 4, 2022, at the age of 87, as was reported by his wife.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Sam Gooden (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Sam Gooden's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- 9♦ — Birth Card: The Universal Provider
- 5♦ — Karma — Environment: The Dynamic Entrepreneur
- Q♦ — Karma — Displacement: The Prosperous Nurturer
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 2♣ — Life Spread — Venus
- K♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- J♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 4♥ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 4♦ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♠ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 6♣ — 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 9♦, 5♦, Q♦, 7♠, 8♥, K♦, 2♣, K♣, J♦, 4♥, 4♦, 2♠, 6♣, 6♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Other inductees with this card
- Andy Taylor — 2022 Performers with Duran Duran
- Bill Haley — 1987 Performers; 2012 Performers with The Comets
- Bono — 2005 Performers with U2
- Dave Mason — 2004 Performers with Traffic
- David Ruffin — 1989 Performers with The Temptations
- Donovan — 2012 Performers
- Fuzzy Haskins — 1997 Performers with Parliament-Funkadelic
- Henry Fambrough — 2023 Performers with The Spinners
- Inspectah Deck — 2026 Performers with Wu-Tang Clan
- Lois Reeves — 1995 Performers with Martha and the Vandellas
- Michael Shrieve — 1998 Performers with Santana
- Nick Rhodes — 2022 Performers with Duran Duran
- 5 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Sam Gooden's birth card?
- The 9 of Diamonds. September 2 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 Sam Gooden's dates come from?
- Birth date 1934-09-02 is the day-precision date on Sam Gooden'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, Sam Gooden) + Wikidata CC0 (Q7407533). Birth date 1934-09-02 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).