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Sixto Diaz Rodríguez (July 10, 1942 – August 8, 2023), mononymously known as Rodríguez, was an American musician from Detroit, Michigan.. Though his career was initially met with little fanfare in the United States, he found success in South Africa, Australia (touring the country twice in his earlier career), and New Zealand.
Searching for Sugar Man is the 2012 soundtrack album from the documentary, Searching for Sugar Man, containing a compilation of songs by Rodriguez from his two studio albums. As a result of the popularity of the documentary, the album climbed high for a soundtrack album in some national album charts.
"Sugar Man" is a song written and recorded by Sixto Rodriguez in August–September 1969 and released on his debut studio album, Cold Fact, in 1970. The song was banned by the South African government in the 1970s because of drug references in the lyrics, with records scratched to prevent radio airplay.
Sixto Rodriguez, the singer/songwriter who was the subject of the acclaimed 2012 documentary 'Searching for Sugar Man,' has died at 81. Rodriguez, Singer/Songwriter Rediscovered In ‘Sugar Man ...
Singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez had toiled in obscurity until the Oscar-winning 2012 documentary 'Searching for Sugar Man' brought him acclaim.
Sixto Rodriguez, an American singer-songwriter whose outsized popularity in South Africa inspired the Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man," passed away on Tuesday at the age of 81 ...
Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him.
Sixto Rodriguez later pursued royalties he did not receive from his music being used and played in South Africa. Some of Rodriguez songs were banned by the apartheid regime and many bootlegged ...