Howard Tate

USA

Born: 13 August 1939

Died: 03 December 2011

Years Active: 60, 70, 2000

Genres: R&B

Styles: Soul, R&B/Soul, Pop-Soul, Northern Soul, Uptown Soul

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Highly regarded by soul music cultists and virtually unknown by anybody else, Howard Tate had some minor success with the Verve label in the late '60s. The singer brought a lot of blues and gospel to his phrasing, but what made him palatable to the modern R&B audience (and, to a lesser degree, pop fans) was the Northeast soul production of Jerry Ragovoy, who also wrote much of Tate's material. Howard made the R&B Top 20 three times in the late '60s (with "Ain't Nobody Home," "Stop," and "Look at Granny Run Run"). However, he's most famous to ro...

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