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Sherman Garnes'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
Sherman Marlow Garnes (June 8, 1940 – February 26, 1977) was an American singer and member of the doo-wop group The Teenagers. The birth-card coordinate for June 8 is the 9 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1993 Performers with Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers induction.
Rock Hall record
- 1993 Performers — inducted member of Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
The 9 of Diamonds coordinate
Sherman Garnes'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 Sherman Garnes. 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.
Sherman Garnes in the public record
He is remembered for his distinctive bass register. Garnes attended Edward W. Stitt Junior High School, where he met Jimmy Merchant. They formed a group called The Earth Angels before forming the Coupe de Villes along with Herman Santiago and Joe Negroni in 1954. This group, with the addition of Frankie Lymon, later became The Teenagers and had a hit song with "Why Do Fools Fall in Love". Garnes recorded three songs at Mediasound in New York City in the mid 1970s. They were Cos I'm A Poor Loser, Our Love Is Gone Girl, Let Go and Long Lasting Romance (He's No Lover). Helmed by well-known disco producer Tom Moulton, nothing came of them.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Sherman Garnes (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 9 of Diamonds
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 Sherman Garnes, and not a forecast of induction.
Cards in Sherman Garnes'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.
Visionary thinking about resource distribution
Stitt Junior High School, where he met Jimmy Merchant.
Paired on value and commerce — the domain ♦ governs in this system. Markers in the record: merchant.
Also on the record
- On February 26, 1977, Garnes died of a heart attack in his home in Brooklyn, New York after complications from open heart surgery; he was only 36 years old.
- Garnes was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 as a member of the Teenagers.
- Garnes was 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall and had a size 13 shoe.
- He had a daughter named Leslie Garnes Carlisle (Moguel).
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 Sherman Garnes's birth card?
- The 9 of Diamonds. June 8 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 Sherman Garnes's dates come from?
- Birth date 1940-06-08 is the day-precision date on Sherman Garnes'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, Sherman Garnes) + Wikidata CC0 (Q3959413). Birth date 1940-06-08 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).