http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/books/oscar-winning-documentary-gets-extended-play-treatment-367083501.html The story of Sixto Rodriguez as depicted in the Academy Award-winning 2012 documentarySearching for Sugar Man was one that intrigued the world. The plot centred around Rodriguez, a musician based out of Detroit in the ’60s and ’70s, who…
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‘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…
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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,…
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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
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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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- Syd Kitchen Book Launch, Wednesday 1st February January 30, 2017
- NICK TURNER – Home and Secure January 20, 2017
- Konfyt – A Mix Of South African Jams January 15, 2017
- Vinyl sales hit a 25-year high: John Maytham talks to Stephen “Sugar” Segerman January 14, 2017
