Greg Tate
Birthday
1957/10/14
Day of death
2021/12/07 (64 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Dayton, Ohio, USA
Also know as
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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 Coalit...Read more
Acting
(2023) Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
as Self
Black February: Music Is an Open Door
as Himself
(2019) Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
as Self - Writer
(2016) Two Trains Runnin'
as Self
(2017) Basquiat: Rage to Riches
as Self (Writer, Musician)
(1993) Seven Songs for Malcolm X
as ---
(2019) I Am Richard Pryor
as Self - Musician
(1996) The Last Angel of History
as Self
(2020) The Real Michael Jackson
as Self
(2017) Betty: They Say I’m Different
as Self
(2005) Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker
as Self
(2022) The Andy Warhol Diaries
as Self