https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RESpJDdTjZo « Sugar Baz », newly released by French electro producer Yul with Baz, a young Ukulele-playing singer, is a modern and sensuous cover version of the classic Sugar Man, Sixto Rodriguez’s jewel rediscovered less than a decade ago. Single released July 17th 2020 on Résiste records.
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Ozaka Bondage – Sugar Man (Sixto Rodriguez) Cover feat. Karate Kick, Birds View & Markus Oeffinger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiCmwjJnQE4 Thank you for your music. 50 years later a new generation of musicians is still influenced by your beautiful songwriting and is rediscovering your songs, that fit perfectly in the crazy world we live in. No matter what happened in the past – your music is immortal. Ozaka Bondage
World in Union with PJ Powers & Tygerberg Children’s Choir | CTMA News: Youth in the Spotlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5XqrCqaWtc World in Union (2020 Tribute) by PJ Powers and the Tygerberg Children’s Choir (TCC) is a tribute to all Covid-19 essential workers and public efforts made in fighting the corona virus pandemic. This new version of the song was filmed and recorded by the artists in isolation during the country’s lockdown, and released on Africa Day 25ContinueContinue reading “World in Union with PJ Powers & Tygerberg Children’s Choir | CTMA News: Youth in the Spotlight”
Lockdown Blues – The Bottom Barrel Blues Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTeXO4slwlI Featuring Robin Auld, Steve Walsh, Simon Orange, Tonia Möller, Schalk Joubert, Willem Möller, Kevin Gibson, Mauritz Lotz & Nico Mac “Lockdown Blues” is a blues song created and performed by the Bottom Barrel Blues Band – a collaboration of prominent South African contemporary musicians. It was recorded individually by the artists in isolation duringContinueContinue reading “Lockdown Blues – The Bottom Barrel Blues Band”
Sixto Rodriguez at Ludlow Garage Feb 14 2020
Early ‘Sugar Man’ cover version by Ronnie Jones
Our thanks to Lee Shaw in London who alerted us to this rare cover of ‘Sugar Man’ by Ronnie Jones, off his 1975 4-track 7” single, which was (apparently) only released in Brazil. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a20XGVjVzg&w=500
Sugar Man song featured in trailer for “Moffie” film
https://youtu.be/sr4SaDufN5o The year is 1981 and South Africa’s white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of 16, Nicholas Van der Swart (Kai Luke Brummer) must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime. The threat of communism andContinueContinue reading “Sugar Man song featured in trailer for “Moffie” film”
Detroit Musicians Remake ‘I Wonder’
Costa Dedes has been producing music for about 10 years in Detroit. After watching the ‘Searching For Sugar Man’ documentary, he was inspired to do a Sixto Rodriguez tune with an all-star line-up of Detroit artists….. ….including: JRae with some female vocals (she plays The Old Miami where an ominous “Sixto for Mayor” poster hangs!).ContinueContinue reading “Detroit Musicians Remake ‘I Wonder’”
Sugar Man by Rebekah Thompson & Ben Ludik For Moffie Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6FThT8wqoQ From the 2019 South African-British biographical war romantic drama film Moffie, co-written and directed by Oliver Hermanus.
Rodriguez – live at Best Kept Secret 2018
Catch Rodriguez at The Royal Albert Hall in September https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2018/rodriguez/
Kapstadt – Searching for Sugar Man
Lorenz on 21. Januar 2016 at 15:00 Original article at http://www.sirenen-und-heuler.de/kapstadt-searching-for-sugar-man/ [Please scroll down for Google’s translation from German to English] Eigentlich wollte ich einkaufen gehen. Dann sehe ich im Schaufenster dieses Platten-Cover. Im nächsten Moment saugt mich ein Zeittunnel ein. Ich treffe auf einen totgeglaubten Superstar, Südafrika in den Seventies, treue Fans und ein StückContinueContinue reading “Kapstadt – Searching for Sugar Man”
Sugar Man Remixes by Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP
Sugar Man by Hugh Masekela, Vusi Mahlasela and Dave Matthews, Friday October 10, 2014 at Carnegie Hall
‘Searching for Sugar Man’ star Rodriguez to make his Royal Albert Hall debut | Life at the Hall
Cult singer-songwriter Rodriguez will return to London in 2015 to make his Royal Albert Halldebut in a special show on 7 May 2015. Rodriguez’s rise to international fame is perhaps one of the most fascinating stories in music. After the release of two little-sold albums in the early 1970s, Rodriguez’s work became hugely successful in South Africa, Australia, BotswanaContinueContinue reading “‘Searching for Sugar Man’ star Rodriguez to make his Royal Albert Hall debut | Life at the Hall”
Interviews with Stephen Segerman and Brian Currin at Mabu Vinyl, 22 September 2014 | Dagbreek, Kyknet
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Malik Bendjelloul: Death of a filmmaker who told an extraordinary South African tale | Daily Maverick
From Daily Maverick Malik Bendjelloul, the Swedish director of ‘Searching for Sugar Man’, has committed suicide aged 36. It’s just over a year since the documentary about folk musician Rodriguez won Bendjelloul an Oscar and captured the hearts of viewers all over the world. REBECCA DAVIS spoke to Bendjelloul’s subject and friend, Cape Town record-storeContinueContinue reading “Malik Bendjelloul: Death of a filmmaker who told an extraordinary South African tale | Daily Maverick”
It was 16 years ago this week that Rodriguez toured South Africa
It was 16 years this week that Rodriguez and his family arrived in South Africa for a series of sold-out performances. Read all about this historic tour at http://rodriguezandbigsky.com/ Dead Men Don’t Tour, Rodriguez in South Africa 1998 (TV Documentary) Footage from this documentary features strongly in the Oscar winning film, Searching For Sugar Man.
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