In the 1990s two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock'n'roller, Rodriguez.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching_for_Sugar_Man: Searching for Sugar Man is a documentary film directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts of two Cape Town fans in the late 1990s, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true, and, if not, to discover what had become of him. Rodriguez's music, which never took off in the United States, had become wildly popular in South Africa, but little was known about him there.
On 10 February 2013, the film won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary at the 66th British Academy Film Awards in London, and two weeks later it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards in Hollywood.
On 9 May 2013, Rodriguez received an honorary doctorate – a Doctor of Humane Letters degree – from his alma mater Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan during WSU's 10 AM commencement ceremony.
Watch the trailer below and visit the official website
Sixto Rodriguez- Cold Fact full album. Published on 9 Apr 2013
Listen to the songs below:
- Sugar man 0:00
- Only Good For Conversation 3:49
- Crucify Your Mind 6:14
- This Is Not A Song, It's An Outburst 8:46
- Hate Street Dialogue 10:53
- Forget It 13:26
- Inner City Blues 15:15
- I wonder 18:41
- Like Janis 21:15
- Gommorah (A Nursery Rhyme) 23:51
- Rich Folks Hoax 26:12
- Jane S. Piddy 29:15
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