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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019) — Self - Writer
2. Sidney (2022) — Self
3. The Andy Warhol Diaries (2022) — Self
4. I Am Richard Pryor (2019) — Self - Musician
5. Betty: They Say I’m Different (2017) — Self
6. Basquiat: Rage to Riches (2017) — Self (Writer, Musician)
7. The Last Angel of History (1996) — Self
8. Two Trains Runnin' (2016) — Self
9. The Real Michael Jackson (2020) — Self
10. Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker (2005) — Self
11. Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)
12. Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023) — Self
13. Black February: Music Is an Open Door — Self