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Eddie Van Halen is a guitarist, composer, record producer (Kingdom of the Netherlands).
Edward Lodewijk Van Halen ( van HAY-lən, Dutch: [ˈɛtʋɑrt ˈloːdəʋɛik fɑn ˈɦaːlə(n)]; January 26, 1955 – October 6, 2020) was an American musician. He was the guitarist, keyboardist, backing vocalist and primary songwriter of the rock band Van Halen, which he founded with his brother Alex in 1972. Van Halen is widely regarded as one of the greatest guitarists in rock history, and was well-known for popularizing the tapping guitar technique, allowing rapid arpeggios to be played with two hands on the fretboard. Eddie Van Halen was voted number one in a Guitar World Magazine poll for "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" poll. Rolling Stone ranked Van Halen 4th in its list of the "250 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" in 2023. Van Halen dealt with numerous health issues beginning in the 1990s. He died on October 6, 2020, due to complications from throat cancer.
Biography excerpt from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
| Born | 26 January 1955 |
| Profession | guitarist, composer, record producer |
| Nationality | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Educated at | Pasadena City College, Pasadena High School, Marshall Fundamental Secondary School |
| Spouse | Valerie Bertinelli |
| Children | Wolfgang Van Halen |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Aquarius |
| Nakshatra | Dhanishta (Pada 4) |
| Sun Sign | Capricorn |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Libra |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 147 musicians with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 17 of them (12%) have the Moon in Aquarius, like Eddie Van Halen, and 9 (6%) share the Dhanishta Nakshatra — the #2 most common Moon Nakshatra among musicians, where Anuradha leads with 10 (7%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Eddie Van Halen was born on 26 January 1955. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Eddie Van Halen's Moon sign (Rashi) is Aquarius and the Nakshatra is Dhanishta, pada 4, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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