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Greg Tate
Dayton, Ohio, USA
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 A…
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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.
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2023
Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
Movie Self
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2022
Sidney
Movie Self
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2022
The Andy Warhol Diaries
TV show Self
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2020
The Real Michael Jackson
Movie Self
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2019
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Movie Self - Writer
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2019
I Am Richard Pryor
Movie Self - Musician
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2017
Betty: They Say I’m Different
Movie Self
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2017
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Movie Self (Writer, Musician)
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2016
Two Trains Runnin'
Movie Self
- 2005
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1996
The Last Angel of History
Movie Self
- 1993
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Black February: Music Is an Open Door
Movie Self
