Greg Tate
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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
Credits
Sidney (2022)
as Self
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019)
as Self - Writer
I Am Richard Pryor (2019)
as Self - Musician
Two Trains Runnin' (2016)
as Self
Basquiat: Rage to Riches (2017)
as Self (Writer, Musician)
Seven Songs for Malcolm X (1993)
Actor
The Real Michael Jackson (2020)
as Self
Betty: They Say I’m Different (2017)
as Self
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes (2023)
as Self
The Last Angel of History (1996)
as Self
Black February: Music Is an Open Door (—)
as Himself
Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker (2005)
as Self