Climb Up On My Music – A Tribute to Rodriguez, Cape Town, 14 September 2023

The Toneelhuis at 55 Shortmarket Street, Cape Town on Thursday 14 September.

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Rodriguez

Real name Jesus Sixto (pronounced Seez-too) Diaz-Rodriguez (10 July 1942 – 8 August 2023)

— Wikipedia

Rodriguez changed the lives of a lot of kids in the 70s. Cold Fact was the go-to album for some comfort and escape in the tumultuous and heavily authoritarian place that was South Africa at the time. He sold more records here than Elvis.

He was bigger than the Rolling Stones, whereas back home in Detroit he was barely known. His story was documented in Searching For Sugar Man, a movie put together by South Africans Stephen “Sugar” Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom (directed by Malik Bendjelloul) which won an Oscar for best documentary.

Rodriguez performed in South Africa more than 30 times between 1998 and the beginning of the pandemic in 2020.

Paying tribute to him are 4 different acts from Cape Town, South Africa, each of whom give their take on how his music influenced them.

The musicians are James Kibby, Roy Kassel, Lydney Crots and the duo Flip Squad.

The show will feature projected photographs of Rodriguez by Nardus Engelbrecht.