Searching For Sugar Man Film
It is with great pleasure that we at Sugarman.org join all Sixto Diaz Rodriguez’s Family and many, many fans around the world in wishing him a Happy and Healthy and Peaceful 81st Birthday. Continue reading 10th July 2023: Happy Birthday Rodriguez!
I hope all is well with you and yours.My Name is Dave Deitke. I am a full-time musician/ special needs music educator/ music therapist MT-BC, NMT from Cleveland, OH, and I run a podcast called Zig At The Gig. I started this podcast to promote a non-profit art gallery called Negative Space. Since the shutdown, I have refocused my efforts and talked with professionals in … Continue reading Zig At The Gig Podcast
Searching For Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen “Sugar” Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him. Rodriguez’s … Continue reading “Searching For Sugar Man” coming to Netflix this Friday!
Gilles Peterson joined the musical dots between John Wizards and Sixto Rodriguez Continue reading Gilles Peterson Debuts New John Wizards Track, And Discovers Its Rodriguez connection.
One South African superfan’s quest to unravel the truth about his favourite artist Listen: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct34wg Released On: 01 Sep 2022, available for over a year Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman’s nickname came from the song Sugar Man by the American singer Rodriguez. In 1970s South Africa, Rodriguez was a household name as his anti-establishment lyrics resonated with many of those opposed to the strict apartheid state. Sugar, a … Continue reading Stephen “Sugar” Segerman: My hunt for Rodriguez, a missing music legend | BBC
Please join us in wishing Rodriguez a Happy Birthday on the occasion of his 80th Birthday which falls on July 10th! On behalf of all of us at the official Rodriguez website, Sugarman.org, we send our warmest wishes to Rodriguez and we hope that he has a wonderful day celebrating with his family, and that he is blessed with a Peaceful, Joyful, and Healthy year! For … Continue reading Happy 80th Birthday Rodriguez!
We have just watched your documentary and think there should be more people like you in the world who share the wealth of their love as well as in other ways too. You have been an incredible father to your daughters who seem in awe of you and grateful for the life you provided for them. Your music is so poetic and beautiful and we … Continue reading Searching For Sugar Man
1001 South African Songs You Must Hear Before You Go Deaf by John Samson When Rodriguez walked out onto the stage in Cape Town back in 1998 to kick off his first ever SA tour, he thanked the audience for keeping him alive. And a large part of that thanks could have been directed towards Ard Mathews and Just Jinger as their cover version of … Continue reading Sugar Man – Just Jinger
Steve Louw and his band Big Sky appeared with Rodriguez on the sold-out South African tour in 1998 as featured in the Oscar-winning film “Searching For Sugar Man“. Here is the official video for “Train Don’t Run”, created by Jacqui van Staden. From the album “Headlight Dreams“, produced by Kevin Shirley and released 7 May 2021. … my favourite track on this album is the … Continue reading Train Don’t Run – New Video from Steve Louw
This documentary was shown on South African Television this week, 20 years ago. Footage from this documentary features strongly in the Oscar winning film, Searching For Sugar Man. Directed by Tonia Selley and featuring Big Sky, “Dead Men Don’t Tour”, was first broadcast on SABC 3 at 9.30pm on the 5th July 2001 just after ‘Ripley’s Believe Or Not’. This film features wonderful concert footage, backstage antics, … Continue reading Dead Men Don’t Tour, Rodriguez in South Africa 1998 (TV Documentary)
April 6 2021, Capetown, SA: Today, much-revered South African singer/songwriter/guitarist, Steve Louw releases, “Crazy River,” the first track from his forthcoming album, Headlight Dreams to be released in May via BFD/The Orchard. The song itself is an upbeat, transcendent ode to the beauty of a river, its timelessness against the impermanent world it runs through, and the aspects of ourselves that long to be just … Continue reading BELOVED SOUTH AFRICAN SINGER / SONGWRITER STEVE LOUW RELEASES NEW VIDEO / SINGLE, “CRAZY RIVER”
Hello! I might be one of the last people in the U.S. to see the Searching For Sugar Man documentary – I was so moved, laughing and crying with my friend who checked it out from the public library to share with me. My friend also had his Cold Fact CD, which I am about to rip into my iTunes Library… on the condition that … Continue reading Royalties for Rodriguez
Hi there.My wife and I have just seen the documentary about this fantastic story. It’s absolutely incredible, we sat on our settee with tears in our eyes …The success that you received was thoroughly deserved, well done to everyone concerned…Long may this story continue..Take care and good luck from Paris, France Steve n Carmen Smith Continue reading Fantastic Story
HelloI am Danny Tyrell a local Detroit musician.When you were making the movie I was working with Dennis Coffey as keyboardist. I recall Dennis and Mike meeting in the breaks of a gigAnd Dennis briefly mentioned the project.As years went on I left the group andWent on to develop a music program in 4 rehab centers helping people recover from drugs.One day early on I … Continue reading A letter I wrote Sugarman tonite | Danny
Just wish to say thank you for your music. I have been an instant fan the minute I saw Searching for Sugarman. I wonder (no pun intended) how you are these days and what you think about the times we are living in now. I hope you are writing new songs because I feel your voice and music could be a big help in the … Continue reading Thank You For The Music
South African Tour 1998 Continue reading Rodriguez – Sugar Man (Live in South Africa March 1998)
A Spoonful Of Sugar And James returns to the Alma Café in Mowbray on Friday Sept 27th at 8pm. Booking is as always absolutely essential by phone on 021 685 7377. 50 seats only. This innovative, informative and slightly irreverent performance sees the acclaimed South African singer-songwriter, James Stewart, joining Stephen “Sugar” Segerman, the man behind the rediscovery of Sixto Rodriguez and the Oscar-winning documentary, “Searching … Continue reading A Spoonful Of Sugar And James returns to the Alma Café in Mowbray on Friday Sept 27th at 8pm
David Chiu Contributor Hollywood & Entertainment OTTAWA, ON – SEPTEMBER 17: Rodriguez performs on day 5 of the CityFolk Festival at The Great Lawn at Lansdowne Park on September 17, 2017 in Ottawa, Canada. (Photo by Mark Horton/WireImage)WIREIMAGE It’s one of pop music’s unlikeliest and greatest comeback stories ever: a Mexican-American singer-songwriter from Detroit named Sixto Rodriguez recorded two albums of psychedelic folk rock in the early 1970s … Continue reading Rodriguez’s Forgotten ‘70s Albums Make Their Vinyl Return | Forbes
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