# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/geoff-tate
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:03:59.535Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/geoff-tate"
name: "Geoff Tate"
slug: "geoff-tate"
description: "Geoff Tate is an American singer and songwriter. He rose to fame with the progressive metal band Queensrÿche, who had commercial success with their 1988 album Operation: Mindcrime and 1990 album Empire. Tate is ranked fourteenth on Hit Parader's list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time. He was voted No. 2 on That Metal Show's top 5 hard rock vocalists of the 1980s. In 2012, he won the Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Award for \"Voice in Progressive Heavy Metal\". In 2015, he placed ninth on OC Weekly's list of the 10 Best High-Pitched Metal Singers. After his farewell tour as Queensrÿche, he renamed his band Operation: Mindcrime, after the Queensrÿche album of the same name."
tagline: "American singer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Geoff_Tate_Klaus_Hellmerich_001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1959-01-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.50912266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/GeoffTateOfficial"
    handle:    "GeoffTateOfficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1296501/"
    handle:    "nm1296501"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
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    handle:    "Geoff Tate"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.geofftate.com/"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoff Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoff Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Tate"
    title: "Geoff Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Tate"
    title: "Geoff Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoff Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoff Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Tate"
    title: "Geoff Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoff_Tate"
    title: "Geoff Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoff Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Geoff Tate"
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    title: "Geoff Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Geoff Tate"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump