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‘Sugar Man’ becomes SA’s most successful doccie of all time – Times LIVE

The hit documentary about musician Rodriguez, which sold out in theatres across the country has become the most successful documentary of all time in South Africa. Searching for Sugar Man has made over R2 million at the box office and is currently still screening exclusively at Cinema Nouveau and select Ster-Kinekor Theatres – and shows continueContinueContinue reading “‘Sugar Man’ becomes SA’s most successful doccie of all time – Times LIVE”

Solid at 70 – Sixto Rodriguez at The Usher Hall | The Edinburgh Reporter

It seems fitting that the American septuagenarian should play Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, the same stage that The Rolling Stones played a good while back, on the same night that they were reforming in London, with an average age of 68. The fact that Rodriguez is 70 was not lost on his audience, but neither wasContinueContinue reading “Solid at 70 – Sixto Rodriguez at The Usher Hall | The Edinburgh Reporter”

Rodriguez gets honourary inclusion in new book: 50 Flippen Brilliant South Africans | Jacana

50 Flippen Brilliant South Africans is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling 50 People Who Stuffed Up South Africa, and is once again an irreverent and entertaining popular history of modern South Africa – but with a more positive spin this time around. What does it take to be a flippen brilliant South African?ContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez gets honourary inclusion in new book: 50 Flippen Brilliant South Africans | Jacana”

‘Searching for Sugar Man’ takes top award at documentary festival – MSN Movies News

“Searching for Sugar Man” is continuing to find critical acclaim. Malik Benjelloul’s documentary about musician Rodriguez, who abandoned music only to find his career resuscitated after becoming hugely popular in South Africa, won the Best Music Documentary award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the festival said Friday. “Sugar Man” also took home theContinueContinue reading “‘Searching for Sugar Man’ takes top award at documentary festival – MSN Movies News”

‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Wins Doha Tribeca Festival Audience Awards – The Hollywood Reporter

Chinese feature film Full Circle, the story of a group of irrepressible senior citizens who decide to enter a reality show on television and Searching for Sugar Man, a documentary on the life of Rodriguez, the 1970s U.S. rock icon who never was, won the Audience awards as the Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF) drewContinueContinue reading “‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Wins Doha Tribeca Festival Audience Awards – The Hollywood Reporter”

Rodriguez: The Sugarman Sweetens Up London | The Platform

A 70-year-old displaying all the gusto of a much younger man, cult figure Rodriguez lights up Camden’s Roundhouse, the first stop on his current UK tour He made his way onto the stage like an old man being assisted in his walk down the plank. It seemed like he could barely stand and wouldn’t haveContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez: The Sugarman Sweetens Up London | The Platform”

Rodriguez to play Ann Arbor Folk Festival in January 2013

Rodriguez, aka Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, Rod Riguez, and Jesus Rodriguez, released a pair of albums, “Cold Fact” and “Coming from Reality,” in 1970 and 1971. His music was influenced by Bob Dylan’s, but it had the hard edge of his native Detroit and was often political in nature. It went nowhere in America, and RodriguezContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez to play Ann Arbor Folk Festival in January 2013”

Rodriguez – Live At Royal Festival Hall, London | Reviews | Clash Magazine

  If you don’t know the story of Rodriguez yet, then don’t read this – go and watch this year’s amazing documentary Searching for Sugar Man, then come back to us. For those who know the tale behind the man, you may still be in a sense of awe that he is here: one halfContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez – Live At Royal Festival Hall, London | Reviews | Clash Magazine”

Review: Rodriguez at LJF 2012

I first heard about the singer-songwriter Sixto Diaz Rodriguez when a film charting his life, Searching For Sugar Man, was in the news earlier this year. The BBC called him “the musician who never knew he was famous,” and I was fascinated by his story. Rodriguez released a couple of albums in the States inContinueContinue reading “Review: Rodriguez at LJF 2012”

Rodriguez chats to Jools Holland, 16 November 2012 | BBC Two

Rodriguez chats to Jools Holland on Later… http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01187hp Rodriguez performs Crucify Your Mind on Later… with Jools Holland. http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/showcase/clips/p011855b

Searching For Sugar Man at Doha Tribeca Film Festival this week | Doha Film Institute

39 Films from 30 Countries including 29 MENA Premieres to Be Showcased in DTFF’s Contemporary World Cinema and Special Screenings Programme — Press | Doha Film Institute Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF), the annual cultural event of the Doha Film Institute (DFI), will showcase 21 films in the Contemporary World Cinema section and 12 SpecialContinueContinue reading “Searching For Sugar Man at Doha Tribeca Film Festival this week | Doha Film Institute”

Searching for Sugar Man – an evening with RODRIGUEZ | The Belfast Empire Music Hall

“SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN – AN EVENING WITH RODRIGUEZ” with special guest DAVID HOLMES It’s one of the lost classics of the ’60s, a psychedelic masterpiece drenched in colour and inspired by life, love, poverty, rebellion. The album is Cold Fact, and what’s more intriguing is that its maker – a shadowy figure known as RodriguezContinueContinue reading “Searching for Sugar Man – an evening with RODRIGUEZ | The Belfast Empire Music Hall”