Monthly Archives: March 2013

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…

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 — 5 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…

Headliners for The Hop Farm Music Festival: My Bloody Valentine and Rodriguez

Posted on March 25, 2013 by SugarMan.org — Leave a comment

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…

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Oscar was ‘kersie op die koek’ | Die Burger

Posted on March 25, 2013 by SugarMan.org — 2 Comments

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…

Rodriguez interviewed by Ten’s Angela Bishop, 20 March 2013

Posted on March 25, 2013 by SugarMan.org — 2 Comments

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Posted on March 25, 2013 by SugarMan.org — 2 Comments

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I Wonder team | Oxfam Trailwalker

Posted on March 25, 2013 by SugarMan.org — Leave a comment

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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Rodriguez at the Enmore Theatre, Sydney

Posted on March 25, 2013 by SugarMan.org — 2 Comments

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Sugar Man in Vrouekeur, 22nd March 2013

Posted on March 25, 2013 by SugarMan.org — Leave a comment

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Searching For Sugar Man (2012) | Unambitious Us

Posted on March 20, 2013 by SugarMan.org — 1 Comment

Documentaries are difficult to get right. They can be overbearing, they can be boring and they can often feel as though you are being force fed the personal feelings of the writers and directors. Having recently won the Academy Award…

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