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The vinyl record revival has continued to sweep the globe, with searches for ‘vinyl records’ increasing 8% since 2022
Smoke filled the air, obscuring any clear view of him, but as his soft voice spread through the room with a style and sound comparable to that of Bob Dylan, Coffey and Theodore knew they struck gold. With jet-black hair and black sunglasses, they came to know this shadow of a man as Sixto Rodriguez, a Mexican-American artist and lyrical genius who would surely become the next best hit — or so they thought.
The subject of a 2012 biography about his South African audience searching for him, Rodriguez died at 81 years of age.
The American singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez went from oblivion to a career renaissance after his music developed a cult following in South Africa. He passed away on Tuesday at the age of 81.
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.”