Geoff Tate

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 Paraders list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time He was voted No 2 on That Metal Shows 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 Weeklys list of the 10 Best HighPitched Metal Singers After his farewell tour as Queensrÿche he renamed his band Operation Mindcrime after the Queensrÿche album of the same name Description above from the Wikipedia article Geoff Tate licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia