Gregory Hines's Birth Card: The Jack of Diamonds

In the record

Gregory Oliver Hines (February 14, 1946 – August 9, 2003) was an American dancer, actor, choreographer, and singer. The birth-card coordinate for February 14 is the Jack of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1992 Best Actor in a Musical (Jelly's Last Jam) win.

Tony Award record (leading acting)

• 1992 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical — Jelly's Last Jam as Jelly Roll Morton

The Jack of Diamonds coordinate

Gregory Hines's birthday maps to the Jack of Diamonds (The Successful Messenger). 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 Tony Award and not a verdict on Gregory Hines. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You try a new approach to value and you finish enough of it to know if it works.

Live Jack of Diamonds meaning page

Gregory Hines in the public record

He is one of the most celebrated tap dancers of all time. As an actor, he is best known for History of the World, Part I (1981), Wolfen (1981), The Cotton Club (1984), White Nights (1985), Running Scared (1986), Tap (film) (1989), A Rage in Harlem (1991), The Gregory Hines Show (1997–98), playing Ben on Will & Grace (1999–2000), and for voicing Big Bill on the Nick Jr. animated children's television program Little Bill (1999–2004). Hines starred in more than 40 films and also appeared on Broadway. He received many accolades, including a Daytime Emmy Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a Tony Award, as well as nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award and four Primetime Emmy Awards. Hines was born in New York City, on February 14, 1946 after World War II, to Alma Iola (Lawless) and Maurice Robert Hines, a dancer, musician, and actor, and grew up in the Sugar Hill neighborhood of Harlem. He began tap dancing when he was two years old, and began dancing semi-professionally at age five. After that, he and his older brother Maurice performed together, studying with choreographer Henry LeTang. Gregory and Maurice also studied with veteran tap dancers such as Howard Sims and The Nicholas Brothers when they performed at the same venues.

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

Where the record meets the 6 of Spades

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 Gregory Hines, and not a forecast of a Tony.

You use what you have already walked through without requiring anyone else to be in pain for it to count. You feel responsibility for helping others think clearly. You're the teacher, the counselor, the one people ask for perspective. Your mind is oriented toward truth and guidance.

Through his teaching, he influenced tap dancers such as Savion Glover, Dianne Walker, Ted Levy, and Jane Goldberg.

Paired on shared wording: teaching, walker.

Also on the record

1. The brothers were known as The Hines Kids, making nightclub appearances at venues in Miami, Florida, with Cab Calloway.
2. They were later known as The Hines Brothers.
3. When their father joined the act as a drummer, their name changed again in 1963 to Hines, Hines, and Dad.
4. Hines was an avid improviser of tap steps, tap sounds, and tap rhythms alike.

Other leading Tony winners with this card

• Ethel Merman — 1951 Best Actress in a Musical (Call Me Madam)
• Gertrude Lawrence — 1952 Best Actress in a Musical (The King and I)
• Harvey Fierstein — 1983 Best Actor in a Play (Torch Song Trilogy); 2003 Best Actor in a Musical (Hairspray)
• John Lloyd Young — 2006 Best Actor in a Musical (Jersey Boys)
• Lesley Manville — 2026 Best Actress in a Play (Oedipus)
• Mary-Louise Parker — 2001 Best Actress in a Play (Proof); 2020 Best Actress in a Play (The Sound Inside)
• Thelma Ritter — 1958 Best Actress in a Musical (New Girl in Town)
• Tracy Letts — 2013 Best Actor in a Play (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

FAQ

What is Gregory Hines's birth card?

The Jack of Diamonds. February 14 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Tony Award?

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 Gregory Hines's dates come from?

Birth date 1946-02-14 is the day-precision date on Gregory Hines's Wikipedia person page, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Wikipedia dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Tony Award wins come from the Wikipedia leading-acting lists, which record the Tony Awards. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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