“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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Rodriguez interview on Top Billing, Tuesday 26 February at 8pm on SABC3
When the scale of an artist’s talent is so obvious — how can the world not see it? Rodriguez is such an artist, it took two South Africans to open the world’s eyes to his genius and…
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5 Best Music Films Of 2012 – The Big Picture – NME.COM
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…
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Posted in Awards, Newspapers & Magazines, Reviews & Interviews, Searching For Sugar Man Film
Rodriguez gets honourary inclusion in new book: 50 Flippen Brilliant South Africans | Jacana
50 Flippen Brilliant South Africans is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling 50 People Who Stuffed Up South Africa, and is once again an irreverent and entertaining popular history of modern South Africa – but with a more positive…
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