Category Archives: Reviews & Interviews

Review – Rodriguez @ Hammersmith Apollo, London, June 8 2013 | Young & Serious

It’s not often that an artist plays a sold-out, 5,000 capacity venue at the age of 70. It’s even less common that an artist does this feat having only released two studio albums that, initially, sold poorly. But, that is what Rodriguez did at Hammersmith Apollo on Friday. Rodriguez (birth name Sixto Rodriguez) is aContinueContinue reading “Review – Rodriguez @ Hammersmith Apollo, London, June 8 2013 | Young & Serious”

Sixto Rodriguez takes Detroit stage to enchant hometown crowd | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

You could practically feel the buzz crackling inside the Masonic Temple Theatre Saturday night, where Rodriguez hit the stage for a triumphant homecoming night. It was an apt setting, just down the road from his longtime Woodbridge home and near the bars where he’d plied his trade before finally breaking into the wider public consciousnessContinueContinue reading “Sixto Rodriguez takes Detroit stage to enchant hometown crowd | Detroit Free Press | freep.com”

Sixto Rodriguez pursues review of contracts, sales in search of royalties | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Could some answers finally be on the way for Sixto Rodriguez? After decades of murkiness about his record sales and royalties, a legal and accounting team has begun an inquiry for the enigmatic singer-songwriter, the Free Press has learned. The move comes as 70-year-old Rodriguez gears up for the biggest hometown show of his career,ContinueContinue reading “Sixto Rodriguez pursues review of contracts, sales in search of royalties | Detroit Free Press | freep.com”

Rodriguez is sweeter than sugar, man | StarTribune.com

He seemed frail when escorted onstage by two women Wednesday at the sold-out Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. But then he put on his dark-tinted glasses, his floppy black hat and his beige guitar and suddenly he transformed into Rodriguez, musician of mystery, melancholy and that Oscar-winning movie. “Searching for Sugar Man,” which took theContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez is sweeter than sugar, man | StarTribune.com”

ZekeFilm | After the Show: Searching for Sugar Man

“I just want to be treated like an ordinary….legend” With these words, offered in in humility and a little jest, Rodriguez took the stage for the encore of his May 4, 2013 show at the University of Texas’ Frank Irwin Center in Austin, Texas.  The show was an embodiment of a dream fulfilled that wasContinueContinue reading “ZekeFilm | After the Show: Searching for Sugar Man”

‘Sugar Man’ Sixto Rodriguez tells WSU grads ‘well done’ | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com

Detroit — The Detroit musician who’s suddenly become one of Wayne State University’s more prominent alumni wished the class of 2013 good luck Thursday as he received an honorary degree from the school. In a short speech thanking the University, musician Sixto Rodriguez wished the graduating students from Wayne State University good luck. “Well done,”ContinueContinue reading “‘Sugar Man’ Sixto Rodriguez tells WSU grads ‘well done’ | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com”

Sixto Díaz Rodríguez (“Searching for Sugar Man”) at The Warfield | San Francisco, California | 4/23/2013 (Concert Review)

Rodriguez “I’m not gettin’ old. I’m gettin’ dead.” Sixto Díaz Rodríguez, at age 70, standing before an enthusiastic, sold out crowd at The Warfield in San Francisco last night. He took time away from his set of late 60s folk protest rock and some surprising covers to engage the audience, often with humor (and someContinueContinue reading “Sixto Díaz Rodríguez (“Searching for Sugar Man”) at The Warfield | San Francisco, California | 4/23/2013 (Concert Review)”

On 3rd Degree: Rodriguez – Echoes of Freedom

Broadcast date: Tuesday, 23 April 2013 Singer Songwriter Sixto Rodriguez’s first album Cold Fact was released over forty years ago. Though unknown in America, his music had been a huge hit in South Africa since the 70s. Now years later, an Oscar-winning documentary has finally made him a star in his own country, and aroundContinueContinue reading “On 3rd Degree: Rodriguez – Echoes of Freedom”

‘Searching for Sugar Man’ star Sixto Rodriguez to receive Wayne State degree; Masonic Temple show sells out | MLive.com

DETROIT, MI – Add another honor to 70-year-old Detroit resident Sixto Rodriguez’s impressive stash. The star of an Academy Award-winning documentary called “Searching for Sugar Man” will reportedly receive an honorary degree from Wayne State University this spring. The Detroit News reported the news this week and mentioned Rodriguez will receive a Doctor of HumaneContinueContinue reading “‘Searching for Sugar Man’ star Sixto Rodriguez to receive Wayne State degree; Masonic Temple show sells out | MLive.com”

Rodriguez In New York: ‘Sugar Man’ Star Pleases Fans At Beacon Theatre | Huffington Post

NEW YORK — Sixto Diaz Rodriguez can’t hit the high notes like he used to, but that didn’t matter to his fans. The 70-year-old singer made famous by the Oscar-winning documentary “Searching for Sugar Man” performed Sunday night to a worshipful crowd at Manhattan’s Beacon Theatre. The folk-rocker was at his best performing his ownContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez In New York: ‘Sugar Man’ Star Pleases Fans At Beacon Theatre | Huffington Post”

In the second coming of Rodriguez, a Passover parable | The Times of Israel

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 has indeed spent most of his life struggling to provide for his family by takingContinueContinue reading “In the second coming of Rodriguez, a Passover parable | The Times of Israel”

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 idea he was a legend there until a group of fans found him on theContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez: 10 Things You Don’t Know About the ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Star | Music News | Rolling Stone”

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 in die kategorie vir dokumentêre rolprente. Segerman is ’n sentrale figuur in die dokumentêr. DieContinueContinue reading “Oscar was ‘kersie op die koek’ | Die Burger”

Searching For Sugar Man (2012) | Unambitious Us

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 for Best Documentary, one would expect that Searching for Sugarman (2012) avoids these traps. ForContinueContinue reading “Searching For Sugar Man (2012) | Unambitious Us”

Searching for Sugar Man – Time Out Tokyo

All you really have to know about this surprising and emotive music doc is that you should see it. Anyone who enjoyed, say, The Buena Vista Social Club or Anvil: The Story of Anvil, will surely go for this too. It tells the unlikely story of Sixto Rodriguez, a gifted but way-under-the-radar Detroit-based Hispanic singer-songwriterContinueContinue reading “Searching for Sugar Man – Time Out Tokyo”

Searching For Sugar Man (Documentary, 2012) Review | STATIC MASS EMPORIUM

In the modern world, celebrity culture has saturated almost every single aspect of our lives. It comes in the forms of the desperation for fame to be found on reality television, glossy gossip magazines and bookstores with entire sections devoted to celebrity hardbacks. In the modern era, a young footballer in his early twenties willContinueContinue reading “Searching For Sugar Man (Documentary, 2012) Review | STATIC MASS EMPORIUM”