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”
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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”
Rodriguez – Sugar Man (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnYwSOGYHvo 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 mistakenly rumoured to have committed suicide. The full story is reflected in the 2012ContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez – Sugar Man (RocknRolla Soundsystem Edit)”
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”
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”
SABC Media Libraries: Searching for Sugar Man, also in the SABC Archives
“Sugar Man”, the story of a forgotten singer, won the best documentary at the Oscars this week. Sixto Rodriguez made two records in the early 1970s, but it never took off in America. Unbeknown to him, it became very popular in South Africa. Searching for Sugar Man, is the story of two South Africans andContinueContinue reading “SABC Media Libraries: Searching for Sugar Man, also in the SABC Archives”
Sugar on his way to the Oscars
This room is where the Searching for Sugar Man story all started, and the story just continues to have more and more happy endings …
RODRIGUEZ FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NORWAY: Øyafestivalen
Rodriguez has reached a large audience internationally after the success of the documentary Searching For Sugar Man. Thursday the 8th of August he plays in the park during The Øya Festival. This will be his first visit to Norway and his only concert in Scandinavia this summer. RODRIGUEZ (US) The documentary Searching For Sugar ManContinueContinue reading “RODRIGUEZ FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NORWAY: Øyafestivalen”
Searching For Sugar Man wins Bafta for Best Documentary – ITV News
Searching For Sugar Man has won the Bafta award for Best Documentary. via Searching For Sugar Man wins Bafta for Best Documentary – ITV News.
Searching for Sugar Man | Visual.ly
Searching for Sugar Man | Visual.ly.
Wife of Oscar-nominated ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ star Rodriguez says he’ll stay in $50 Detroit home | MLive.com
DETROIT, MI – Don’t expect fame to change Rodriguez, a 70-year-old partially-blind folk singer from Detroit who is the star of a documentary film nominated for an Oscar. The focus of the “Searching for Sugar Man” film is expected to stay put in a Detroit home in the city’s Woodbridge neighborhood he bought for $50ContinueContinue reading “Wife of Oscar-nominated ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ star Rodriguez says he’ll stay in $50 Detroit home | MLive.com”
Rodriguez Weighs Potential Third Album | Music News | Rolling Stone
Rodriguez Rodriguez, the obscure Detroit songman who unknowingly earned a huge cult audience overseas, will meet with producers to discuss making a third album, his first in more than 40 years. Though adamant about having no specific plan, Rodriguez tells Rolling Stone that once he breaks from touring in June he will explore the prospectContinueContinue reading “Rodriguez Weighs Potential Third Album | Music News | Rolling Stone”
“Searching for Sugar Man” wins PGA award » Realscreen
The documentary Searching for Sugar Man won its latest prize yesterday (January 26), taking home the best documentary award at the 24th annual Producers Guild Awards. Malik Bendjelloul’s film, produced by Man on Wire‘s Simon Chinn, has taken the award for outstanding producer of documentary theatrical motion pictures, the latest trophy for the doc, whichContinueContinue reading ““Searching for Sugar Man” wins PGA award » Realscreen”
‘Searching for Sugar Man’ director says Oscar nom feels ‘surrealistic, crazy’ | Movies | Detroit Free Press | freep.com
On Thursday morning, “Searching for Sugar Man” director Malik Bendjelloul was still getting used to the reality of having made an Oscar-nominated film. “It feels surrealistic, crazy. Oscar is, the word itself, it’s something you’ve heard about since you were a kid. It never occurred to be that it was something anyone ever achieved. IContinueContinue reading “‘Searching for Sugar Man’ director says Oscar nom feels ‘surrealistic, crazy’ | Movies | Detroit Free Press | freep.com”
The incredible ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ | DSTV.com
In Searching for Sugar Man’s online forum, users share their first discovery of the musician, Rodriguez. Most users, from across the world, list variations on 2012 and 2013. But, for people with South African links, encounters with Rodriguez (and his album Cold Fact) go way back. “Arrived in Jo’burg mid 1975 and EVERYONE was playingContinueContinue reading “The incredible ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ | DSTV.com”
Searching For Sugar Man nominated for EE British Academy Film Award
DOCUMENTARY THE IMPOSTER – Bart Layton, Dimitri Doganis MARLEY – Kevin Macdonald, Steve Bing, Charles Steel McCULLIN – David Morris, Jacqui Morris SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN – Malik Bendjelloul, Simon Chinn WEST OF MEMPHIS – Amy Berg The EE British Academy Film Awards will take place on Sunday 10 February at London’s Royal Opera House.ContinueContinue reading “Searching For Sugar Man nominated for EE British Academy Film Award”
Channel24’s Top 12 Movies of 2012 | Channel24
4. SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN – A documentary? A mystery? Or a musical? The story of how a couple of South African fans who set off on a trans-Atlantic journey to discover what happened to their musical hero, Rodriguez, forgotten 1970s American folk singer, will move you in so many ways. A future Oscar winner?ContinueContinue reading “Channel24’s Top 12 Movies of 2012 | Channel24”
Searching For Sugar Man at Doha Tribeca Film Festival this week | Doha Film Institute
39 Films from 30 Countries including 29 MENA Premieres to Be Showcased in DTFF’s Contemporary World Cinema and Special Screenings Programme — Press | Doha Film Institute Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF), the annual cultural event of the Doha Film Institute (DFI), will showcase 21 films in the Contemporary World Cinema section and 12 SpecialContinueContinue reading “Searching For Sugar Man at Doha Tribeca Film Festival this week | Doha Film Institute”
Rodriguez – Sugar Man – Later… with Jools Holland – BBC Two – YouTube
Rodriguez performs Sugar Man on Later… with Jools Holland, BBC Two (13 Nov 2012)
Creative Recognition Awards Announced for 28th IDA Awards | International Documentary Association
The IDA has decided upon this year’s recipients of the Creative Recognition Awards for cinematography, editing, writing, and music. The winners were decided by the Creative Recognition Awards Committee, which is made up from the co-chairs of the Features Screening Committees. At this year’s IDA Awards ceremony, Best Cinematography will go to Women With Cows,ContinueContinue reading “Creative Recognition Awards Announced for 28th IDA Awards | International Documentary Association”
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