Happy Birthday Sixto Rodriguez. Discovered him when I watched Searching for Sugarman last year, only to discover after a conversation with my brother that the reason why his music sounded so familiar was because Shane Duran use to play it in his room all the time in the 70s. Below is a blurb from my brothers blog Pandas Word of the Day about Rodriguez. 10 July 1947 – birth of Sixto Rodriguez, elusive American folk musician. Rodriguez recorded two albums, Cold Fact and Coming From Reality, in the early 1970s. Neither album sold well in the USA, however, unknown to Rodriguez, he gained cult status in Australia and South Africa. Rodriguez disappeared into obscurity as legends abounded of his fate, including that he had either shot himself or set fire to himself on stage. In the 1996, two South African fans, Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman and Craig Styrdrom, tracked him down in Detroit, breaking the news to him that he was bigger than Elvis and the Rolling Stones in South Africa. Rodriguez flew out to South Africa and performed six concerts. Rodriguez has since played concerts across the globe, including Australia, South Africa, USA, UK. The Oscar-winning documentary, ‘Searching for Sugarman’ is a gritty, intriguing biopic of this story. youtube/watch?v=bOLENHRj3Dk
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 04:38:38 +0000
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