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…
Monthly Archives: March 2013
In the second coming of Rodriguez, a Passover parable | The Times of Israel
Tagged with: black fedora, cinderella story, lincoln hall, singer songwriter, sixto rodriguez
Posted in News, Newspapers & Magazines, Reviews & Interviews, Searching For Sugar Man Film
Posted in News, Newspapers & Magazines, Reviews & Interviews, Searching For Sugar Man Film
Rodriguez: 10 Things You Don’t Know About the ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Star | Music News | Rolling Stone
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…
Tagged with: american songwriter, david wolff, sixto rodriguez, Sugar Man
Posted in News, Newspapers & Magazines, Reviews & Interviews, Searching For Sugar Man Film
Posted in News, Newspapers & Magazines, Reviews & Interviews, Searching For Sugar Man Film
Headliners for The Hop Farm Music Festival: My Bloody Valentine and Rodriguez
The Hop Farm Music Festival, Kent’s number one festival, will be take place on the 5th and 6th July 2013. The festival will offer two days of music for up to 10,000 people. Headliners have been announced as: My Bloody…
Tagged with: cass mccombs, celebrities, entertainment, my bloody valentine, sally archer, sweet baboo, The Hop Farm Music Festival
Posted in News, Performances
Posted in News, Performances
Oscar was ‘kersie op die koek’ | Die Burger
KAAPSTAD. – Die Oscar-toekenning is die kersie op die koek van ’n merkwaardige reis oor sy held Rodriguez. Só gesels Stephen “Sugar” Segerman oor die dokumentêre rolprent oor Sixto Rodriguez, Searching for Sugar Man, wat pas ’n Oscar ingepalm het…
Tagged with: celebrities, entertainment, oscars
Posted in Awards, Mabu Vinyl (Music Store), News, Newspapers & Magazines, Reviews & Interviews, Searching For Sugar Man Film
Posted in Awards, Mabu Vinyl (Music Store), News, Newspapers & Magazines, Reviews & Interviews, Searching For Sugar Man Film
Rodriguez interviewed by Ten’s Angela Bishop, 20 March 2013
Tagged with: Australia, entertainment, Midnight Oil, video
Posted in News, Performances, Radio & TV, Reviews & Interviews, Searching For Sugar Man Film, Videos
Posted in News, Performances, Radio & TV, Reviews & Interviews, Searching For Sugar Man Film, Videos
I Wonder team | Oxfam Trailwalker
Inspiration…Thanks to Rodriguez … I wonder about the tears in children’s eyes And I wonder about the soldier that dies I wonder will this hatred ever end I wonder and worry my friend I wonder I wonder wonder don’t you?…
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