Greg Tate
Actor
Biography
Gregory Stephen Tate (October 14, 1957 ā 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.
Filmography
Sidney
as Self 2022
I Am Richard Pryor
as Self - Musician 2019
Betty: They Say Iām Different
as Self 2017
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
as Self (Writer, Musician) 2017
The Last Angel of History
as Self 1996
Two Trains Runnin'
as Self 2016
The Real Michael Jackson
as Self 2020
Electric Purgatory: The Fate of the Black Rocker
as Self 2005
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
as Self 2023
Black February: Music Is an Open Door
as Himself TBA