BBC News – Rodriguez: The musician who never knew he was famous

Click here to see Video Interview

The American singer and songwriter Rodriguez quit the music industry in the 1970s after recording two albums.

While he went back to work on a construction site in Detroit, thousands of miles away in South Africa his songs became hits among supporters of the anti-apartheid movement.

Two decades later one of those fans tracked Rodriguez down in the US.

Now the story of the musician, once regarded as an enigmatic, elusive figure, is being told in a documentary called Searching for Sugar Man.

And Rodriguez is travelling the world promoting the film and playing gigs again. The BBC’s William Marquez caught up with him in Washington, DC.

via BBC News – Rodriguez: The musician who never knew he was famous.

Advertisement

2 thoughts on “BBC News – Rodriguez: The musician who never knew he was famous

Add yours

  1. Nice Rodriguez it’s like we the people have won the lottery also, to now have you enter our awareness, inspire and prompt us to, as the Cubans suggest, to emulate.

    Like

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

Create a website or blog at WordPress.com

Up ↑

%d bloggers like this: