« 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…
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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.
Sugar Man song featured in trailer for “Moffie” film
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…
‘Sugar Man’ Rodriguez opens Montreux Jazz Festival | Reuters
(Reuters) – American singer-songwriter Sixto “Sugar Man” Rodriguez, virtually unknown a few years ago, opened the Montreux Jazz Festival on Thursday, which American producer and its former co-director Quincy Jones calls the “Rolls Royce of music festivals.” Fresh from the…
Tagged with: entertainment, film, montreux jazz festival, Music, sixto rodriguez, Sugar Man
Posted in News, Newspapers & Magazines, Performances
Posted in News, Newspapers & Magazines, Performances
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,…
Tagged with: celebrities, cult hero, entertainment, fitzgerald theater, oscars, Sugar Man
Posted in News, Newspapers & Magazines, Performances, Reviews & Interviews
Posted in News, Newspapers & Magazines, Performances, Reviews & Interviews
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…
Tagged with: beacon theatre, folk rocker, jazzy version, Sugar Man
Posted in Newspapers & Magazines, Performances, Reviews & Interviews, Searching For Sugar Man Film
Posted in Newspapers & Magazines, Performances, Reviews & Interviews, Searching For Sugar Man Film
Rodriguez – Sugar Man (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)
Sixto Rodríguez is an American folk musician from Detroit. His career initially proved short-lived with two little-sold albums in the early 1970s. Unbeknownst to him, however, his work became extremely successful and influential in South Africa, although there he was…
Tagged with: Music, RocknRolla Soundsystem, Sugar Man
Posted in Remixes, Searching For Sugar Man Film
Posted in Remixes, Searching For Sugar Man Film
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