Greg Tate
- Acting
- October 14, 1957 · Dayton, Ohio, USA
- December 7, 2021
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
Filmography
- Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes · Self
- Sidney · Self
- The Andy Warhol Diaries · Self
- The Real Michael Jackson · Self
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool · Self
- I Am Richard Pryor · Self
- Betty: They Say I’m Different · Self
- Basquiat: Rage to Riches · Self
- Two Trains Runnin' · Self
- Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker · Self
- The Last Angel of History · Self
- Seven Songs for Malcolm X
- Black February: Music Is an Open Door · Self