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In the second coming of Rodriguez, a Passover parable | The Times of Israel

Posted on March 29, 2013 by SugarMan.org — 5 Comments ↓

An elderly man in a black fedora and heavy sunglasses shuffles hesitantly along a Detroit sidewalk. The wrong side of 70, his eyesight poor, the man’s sloped shoulders suggest decades of hard labor. His name is Sixto Rodriguez, and he…

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Rodriguez: 10 Things You Don’t Know About the ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Star | Music News | Rolling Stone

Posted on March 29, 2013 by SugarMan.org — 4 Comments ↓

The Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man tells the almost unbelievable story of a Mexican-American songwriter whose two early Seventies albums bombed in America, but who wound up finding a huge audience in Apartheid-era South Africa. Sixto Rodriguez had no…

Searching for Sugar Man – Time Out Tokyo

Posted on March 16, 2013 by SugarMan.org — Leave a comment ↓

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.…

Searching for Sugar Man star Sixto Rodriguez to play Masonic Temple Theater in May

Posted on February 27, 2013 by SugarMan.org — 2 Comments ↓

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…

5 Best Music Films Of 2012 – The Big Picture – NME.COM

Posted on December 21, 2012 by SugarMan.org — 2 Comments ↓

1. Searching For Sugar Man Two South Africans go on a quest to find cult US musician Sixto Rodriguez, whose lyrics of struggle and injustice had a huge impact in their apartheid-stained country in the ’70s. Cue a gloriously happy…

Oscar Contender ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Passes $1 Million in Scandinavia – The Hollywood Reporter

Posted on December 18, 2012 by SugarMan.org — Leave a comment ↓

The documentary follows Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul’s quest to discover the story of 70s singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez. Searching for Sugar Man, the acclaimed music documentary from Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul and one of the 15 titles on the 2013 Oscar…

MUSIC REVIEW | Culture Northern Ireland

Posted on December 6, 2012 by SugarMan.org — Leave a comment ↓

When people gather and talk about the singer-songwriters they admire, the same familiar names usually recur: Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell: all legends whose music has lasted through the decades, from the 1960s to the present day.…

Rodriguez, Usher Hall, Edinburgh | New music reviews, news & interviews | The Arts Desk

Posted on December 1, 2012 by SugarMan.org — Leave a comment ↓

We surely all know the story of Sixto Rodriguez by now. The Detroit-born singer-songwriter made two fine albums in the early 1970s, Cold Fact and Coming from Reality, before swiftly vanishing. As he descended into obscurity his music slowly rose…

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From the SugarMan.org Archives: Press Release for the 1998 South African Tour

Posted on September 21, 2012 by SugarMan.org — 3 Comments ↓

“Dead Men Don’t Tour” – Konny Rodriguez Rodriguez The Cold Facts… South African Tour 1998 On 6th March 1998, when Sixto Rodriguez walks out on to the stage at the Bellville Velodrome for his first South African performance, a 25-year-old mystery…

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