Greg Tate
October 14, 1957 (68 years old) in Dayton, Ohio, USA
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.
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- 2023 · Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes as Self
- 2022 · The Andy Warhol Diaries as Self
- 2020 · The Real Michael Jackson as Self
- 2019 · Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool as Self - Writer
- 2019 · I Am Richard Pryor as Self - Musician
- 2017 · Betty: They Say I’m Different as Self
- 2017 · Basquiat: Rage to Riches as Self (Writer, Musician)
- 2016 · Two Trains Runnin' as Self
- 2005 · Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker as Self
- 1996 · The Last Angel of History as Self
- 1993 · Seven Songs for Malcolm X as
- Future · Black February: Music Is an Open Door as Himself