Drummer & record producer
Questlove
Drummer of The Roots and the director of Summer of Soul, which won the Academy Award for best documentary. Born in Philadelphia.
Ahmir Khalib Thompson, known professionally as Questlove, is an American drummer, record producer, disc jockey, filmmaker, music journalist, and actor. He is the drummer and joint frontman for the hip-hop band the Roots. The Roots has been the in-house band for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon since 2014, after having fulfilled the same role on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Questlove is also one of the producers of the 2015 cast album of the Broadway musical Hamilton. He has also co-founded the websites Okayplayer and OkayAfrica. He joined Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University as an adjunct professor in 2016, and hosted the podcast Questlove Supreme.
- Born
- 1971-01-20, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAA Wednesday
- At birth
- Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Scorpio
- Nationality
- United States
- Birth-time source
- No birth time on record: Rodden X
Born
At birth
Nationality
Birth-time sourceBirth Chart
1971-01-20, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA · time unknown, noon chart
America/New_Yorkthe zone used then
America/New_YorkThe chart
| Body | Sign | Degree | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Capricorn | 29°59′ | Direct |
| Moon | Scorpio | 10°45′ | Direct |
| Mercury | Capricorn | 5°58′ | Direct |
| Venus | Sagittarius | 13°08′ | Direct |
| Mars | Scorpio | 28°30′ | Direct |
| Jupiter | Sagittarius | 1°03′ | Direct |
| Saturn | Taurus | 15°42′ | Direct |
| Uranus | Libra | 13°33′ | Retrograde |
| Neptune | Sagittarius | 2°32′ | Direct |
| Pluto | Virgo | 29°36′ | Retrograde |
Questlove is alive, so there is one chart here rather than two. The death chart is cast for a documented moment of death and there is nothing to cast one for, which is the point: this site does not estimate either end.
Their Astrocartography
Where each planet sat on one of the four angles at the moment Questlove was born. Tap a line to read what the tradition associates with it.
Cast for noon, as the birth time is unknown, so the longitudes are approximate.