Biography
Geoff Tate (born Jeffrey Wayne Tate, January 14, 1959; he later changed his first name to Geoffery or Geoffrey) 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.
Bio from Wikipedia
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Operation: Mindcrime
1988
Empire
1990
Rage For Order
1986
The Warning
1984
Queensrÿche
1983
Operation: Mindcrime II
2006
Promised Land
1994
Moonglow
2019
Official Bootleg: Dark Side Of The Moon
2006
Tribe
2003
Hear In The Now Frontier
1997
Silent Lucidity
1990
Hear 'n Aid (An All-Star Album For Famine Relief)
1986
Relentless
2021
Sweet Oblivion Feat. Geoff Tate
2019
Greatest Hits
2000
The Perfect Machine
2005
Credited work
844 releases · 96 albums · active 1982–2025
- Performance · 2,725
- Other credits · 430
- Production · 11
- Engineering · 3
Studios: Triad Studios · Wisseloord Studios · Gate Studio, Wolfsburg · Le Studio
Frequent collaborators
- Queensrÿche
- Various
- Tobias Sammet's Avantasia
- Dream Theater
- Arch Enemy
- Sweet Oblivion (2)
- Operation: Mindcrime
- Echoes (11)