AstroTwinzJames Blades is a musician, music educator, percussionist (United Kingdom).
James Blades OBE (9 September 1901 – 19 May 1999) was an English percussionist. He was one of the most distinguished percussionists in Western music, with a long and varied career. His book Percussion Instruments and their History (1971) is a standard reference work on the subject. Blades was born in Peterborough in 1901. He was a long-time associate of Benjamin Britten, with whom he conceived many of the composer's unusual percussion effects. In 1954, Blades was appointed Professor of Percussion at the Royal Academy of Music. As a chamber musician he played with the Melos Ensemble and the English Chamber Orchestra. Blades' pupils included the rock drummers Max Sedgley, Carl Palmer, and Richard James Burgess as well as percussionist Evelyn Glennie.
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| Born | 9 September 1901 |
| Profession | musician, music educator, percussionist |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Employer | Royal Academy of Music |
| Awards | Officer of the Order of the British Empire |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Cancer |
| Nakshatra | Pushya (Pada 2) |
| Sun Sign | Leo |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Cancer |
| 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. 14 of them (10%) have the Moon in Cancer, like James Blades, and 6 (4%) share the Pushya Nakshatra — the #6 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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James Blades was born on 9 September 1901. 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.
James Blades's Moon sign (Rashi) is Cancer and the Nakshatra is Pushya, pada 2, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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