Stephen Robert Morse: Kennedy Center Should Honor Sixto Rodriguez, the Bob Dylan of Detroit

If you haven’t seen the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, then consider this a spoiler alert. If you’ve already seen it or you’re not going to see it any time soon, then keep on reading. (But first, take a second to sign this Change.org petition!)

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez created brilliant music that was the stuff of legend, but for whatever the reason, his records didn’t sell in America. And he fell into obscurity.

It is rare that a documentary elicits emotions that I carry with me for days and weeks after I have seen it. But that is just what Searching for Sugar Man did. This film tells the story of Rodriguez, whose songs inspired the movement to end apartheid in South Africa and whose lyrics became anthems of change for people around the world.

via Stephen Robert Morse: Kennedy Center Should Honor Sixto Rodriguez, the Bob Dylan of Detroit.