Broadcast date: Tuesday, 23 April 2013 Singer Songwriter Sixto Rodriguez’s first album Cold Fact was released over forty years ago. Though unknown in America, his music had been a huge hit in South Africa since the 70s. Now years later,…
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On 3rd Degree: Rodriguez – Echoes of Freedom
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Searching for Sugar Man – Time Out Tokyo
All you really have to know about this surprising and emotive music doc is that you should see it. Anyone who enjoyed, say, The Buena Vista Social Club or Anvil: The Story of Anvil, will surely go for this too.…
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Paradiso is bringing Sugar Man Sixto Rodriguez to Amsterdam | Overdose.am – Amsterdam’s cultural magazine
Sixto Rodriguez, the star of the best documentary Oscar winning Searching For Sugar Man, is coming to Amsterdam. Paradiso were the first ones to smartly jump onto the recent hype around the ’70s folk singer. The documentary depicts how the…
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SABC Media Libraries: Searching for Sugar Man, also in the SABC Archives
“Sugar Man”, the story of a forgotten singer, won the best documentary at the Oscars this week. Sixto Rodriguez made two records in the early 1970s, but it never took off in America. Unbeknown to him, it became very popular…
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Truth and Beauty: “Searching for Sugar Man”
What happens to gifted artists who slip through the cracks? “Searching for Sugar Man” takes us on an 85-minute journey to answer this question. We begin in the backseat of a convertible driving along a winding mountain highway, with the ocean…
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Rodriguez Weighs Potential Third Album | Music News | Rolling Stone
Rodriguez, the obscure Detroit songman who unknowingly earned a huge cult audience overseas, will meet with producers to discuss making a third album, his first in more than 40 years. Though adamant about having no specific plan, Rodriguez tells Rolling…
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The Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez :: SACSIS.org.za
Searching for Sugarman, Malik Bendjelloul’s film about the reception of Sixto Rodriguez in South Africa, continues to accumulate awards, critical acclaim and commercial success as its momentum gathers in the lead up to the Academy Awards at the end of…
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Tour news: Sugar Man on his way – Entertainment – NZ Herald News
Sixto Rodriguez, the Mexican-American singer-songwriter who is enjoying a renaissance more than 40 years after releasing his two and only albums, will play New Zealand for the first time in March. He plays the Wellington Opera House on March 16…
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Big Concerts adds 4th Cape Town Rodriguez show | Channel24
Cape Town – Big Concerts announced that another Cape Town show has been added for legendary singer-songwriter Rodriguez’s tour in South Africa in February. With three sold-out shows so far in Cape Town, the extra performance was added due to…
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