DETROIT (WXYZ) – The star of the Oscar winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man will be performing his first post-Oscar show here in his hometown. Sixto Rodriguez has scheduled a show at the Masonic Temple Theater for Saturday, May 18…
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Searching for Sugar Man Interview
In the early ’70s, Rodriguez recorded two albums in the United States, working with some of the biggest producers in the industry and even attracting a capable suitor in the form of Motown Records. He only sold more than a…
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France Is Sweet on ‘Sugar Man’ – NYTimes.com
A love story is developing between the French and Rodriguez, the Detroit-born musician who flopped in the 1970s, was a star without knowing it in apartheid South Africa and was rediscovered last summer in the United States when the documentary…
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Searching for Sugar Man is Critics’ Choice | Channel24
Los Angeles – Just hours after receiving an Oscar nomination on Thursday, SA-filmed musical documentary Searching for Sugar Man won Best Documentary Feature at the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. The film, which is a UK/Sweden co-production, tells the story of…
Searching for Sugar Man – an evening with RODRIGUEZ | The Belfast Empire Music Hall
“SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN – AN EVENING WITH RODRIGUEZ” with special guest DAVID HOLMES It’s one of the lost classics of the ’60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in colour and inspired by life, love, poverty, rebellion. The album is Cold Fact,…
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Searching For Sugar Man reference in John Lewis Ad | Youtube
Check out this John Lewis advert and see what’s showing 34 seconds into it: Thanks to John Samson and Malik Bendjelloul for spotting this.
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Searching For Sugar Man: world exclusive trailer – video
Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, mysterious 1970s folk rocker, Rodriguez. Malik Bendjelloul’s acclaimed documentary premiered at the Sundance film festival, where it won two awards, opened last week’s Sheffield DocFest, went…
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