In the 1990s, determined South African fans managed to find and contact Rodriguez, which led to an unexpected revival of his musical career. This was told in the 2012 Academy Award -winning …

Aug 9, 2023 · Sixto Diaz Rodriguez grew up in a working class family in Detroit, Michigan. Inspired by Bob Dylan and other singer-songwriters of the Sixties, he began playing coffeehouses around the …

Aug 8, 2023 · Sixto Rodriguez was an American singer-songwriter known for his genre-defying music that combines folk, rock, jazz, soul, and blues and for his protest-style lyrics that comment on social …

Aug 9, 2023 · Rodriguez launched his career in 1967 but initially struggled to find success in his native US and was ultimately dropped by his record label. However, his music gradually developed a cult...

Aug 10, 2023 · Tributes have poured in for Sixto Rodriguez – the cult singer-songwriter who, for years of his career, had a huge following in South Africa and beyond without even knowing it. Rodriguez,...

Aug 9, 2023 · Singer and songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, who became the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man, has died. He was 81.

When Rodriguez was discovered, alive and well and living in Detroit, by Sugar and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, the search was over and those two websites were combined into one central online source …

Aug 9, 2023 · Sixto Rodriguez, the Detroit singer known professionally as Rodriguez, has died at age 81. He died on Tuesday, according to an announcement on his social media and website.

Aug 9, 2023 · Rodriguez — who performed under just his surname but whose full name was Sixto Diaz Rodriguez — was playing bars in Detroit in the late 1960s, his folk-rock reminding those who heard it …

Aug 9, 2023 · Sixto Rodriguez, who lived in obscurity as his music career flamed out early in the U.S. only to find success in South Africa and a stardom he was unaware of, has died in Detroit.