# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/greg-tate
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:37:25.233Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/greg-tate"
name: "Greg Tate"
slug: "greg-tate"
description: "Gregory Stephen Tate 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."
tagline: "American writer, musician, and producer (1957–2021)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Greg_Tate_2013.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-10-14"
deathDate: "2021-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.37
  momentum:             8.571428571428571
  historical:           6.848528
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0851135/"
    handle:    "nm0851135"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/541824"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%BA_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "غريغ تيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AC_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AA"
    title: "جريج تيت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Tate"
    title: "Greg Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Tate"
    title: "Greg Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Tate"
    title: "Greg Tate"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d7e11825-f7a2-4b34-9553-dd3aabf23154"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5606320"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1603482"
    title: "Greg Tate"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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