Geoff Tate

About Geoff Tate

Singer for Queensryche, a progressive heavy metal band, who was named #14 on Hit Parader's list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time.

Geoff Tate is an American singer and songwriter. He is best known for the progressive metal band Queensrÿche, which achieved commercial success with the 1988 album Operation: Mindcrime and the 1990 album Empire. Tate is ranked fourteenth on Hit Parader's list of the 100 Greatest Metal Voices of All Time. He was voted # 2 out of 5 best hard rock singers on That Metal Show of the 1980s. In 2012, he won the Vegas Rocks! Magazine Music Award for "Voice in Progressive Heavy Metal". In 2015, he ranked ninth on OC Weekly's list of top 10 high metal singers in OC Weekly. After touring the Queensrche farewell, he changed his band's name to Operation: Mindcrime, after the album of the same name, Queensrÿche.

Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter
Birth name	Jeffrey Wayne Tate
Born	January 14, 1959, Stuttgart, West Germany
Genres	Heavy metal, progressive metal, alternative metal, power metal, hard rock
Associated acts	Queensrÿche, Hear 'n Aid, Avantasia
Years active	1978–present
Origin	Tacoma, Washington, U.S.

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Trivia

He and his wife launched their own brand of wine in 2010 called Insania.

Geoff Tate before fame

He was a member of the band Babylon, which performed covers of other artists' songs.

Achievement of Geoff Tate

In 2010, he and his wife founded Insania, their own wine label.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$12 Million

Geoff Tate family life

In 1996, he married Susan M. Tate, his second wife.

Associations of Geoff Tate

Rex Brown, one of Pantera's members, is a fan of his.

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