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Detroit-born musician’s extraordinary life was chronicled in the Oscar-winning documentary ‘Searching for Sugar Man’

The culture that nurtured the music of Sixto Rodriguez was already waning in 1970, when the Detroit folk-rock singer released his first album, Cold Fact. So its appropriate that Rodriguezs

We dug into the catalog of the late Detroit singer/songwriter Rodriguez and ranked every song from worst to best.

The ‘Sugar Man’ singer died Tuesday

Sixto Rodriguez, whose song Sugar Man became a huge hit in South Africa, has reportedly died at the age of 81. Born in 1942 as the sixth

The star struggled to find success in the US, but gained a huge fan base in South Africa.

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The singer was the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary that traced his popularity in SA and Australia

Two albums in the early 1970s went largely unnoticed in the United States, but not overseas. Then came the 2012 documentary “Searching for Sugar Man.”

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