Greg Tate
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
- Born
- 1957-10-14 · Dayton, Ohio, USA
- Died
- 2021-12-07
Known for
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019) — Self - Writer
- Sidney (2022) — Self
- The Andy Warhol Diaries (2022) — Self
- I Am Richard Pryor (2019) — Self - Musician
- Betty: They Say I’m Different (2017) — Self
- Basquiat: Rage to Riches (2017) — Self (Writer, Musician)
- The Last Angel of History (1996) — Self
- Two Trains Runnin' (2016) — Self
- The Real Michael Jackson (2020) — Self
- Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker (2005) — Self
- Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)
- Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023) — Self
- Black February: Music Is an Open Door — Self