
Greg Tate
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1957-10-14
Day of Death
2021-12-07 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Greg Tate
Biography
Gregory Stephen Tate (October 14, 1957 – December 7, 2021) was an American writer, musician, and producer. A long-time critic for The Village Voice, Tate focused particularly on African-American music and culture, helping to establish hip-hop as a genre worthy of music criticism. Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America (1992) collected 40 of his works for the Voice and he published a sequel, Flyboy 2, in 2016. A musician himself, he was a founding member of the Black Rock Coalition and the leader of Burnt Sugar.
In 2024, Tate was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a Special Citation award.
Known For
Acting
Black February: Music Is an Open Door
as Himself
(2023)
(2020)
The Real Michael Jackson
as Self
(2019)
I Am Richard Pryor
as Self - Musician
(2019)
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Writer
(2017)
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
as Self (Writer, Musician)
(2017)
(2016)
Two Trains Runnin'
as Self
(2005)
(1996)
The Last Angel of History
as Self
(1993)