{{Short description|American musician (1942–2023)}} {{Use American English|date=August 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Sixto Rodríguez | image = Sixto-Diaz-Rodriguez-2007.jpg | caption = Rodriguez in 2007 | alias = {{hlist|Rodriguez|Sugar Man|Sixth Prince|Jesús Rodríguez}} | birth_name = Sixto Diaz Rodriguez | birth_date = {{birth date|1942|7|10}} | birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2023|8|8|1942|7|10}} | death_place = | genre = {{hlist|Folk rock|psychedelic folk|psychedelic rock}} | occupations = {{hlist|Musician|singer}} | instruments = {{hlist|Vocals|guitar}} | years_active = 1967–1973<br/>1998–2023 | label = {{hlist|Sussex|RCA|A&M|Impact|Light in the Attic}} | website = {{URL|sugarman.org}} }} '''Sixto Diaz Rodríguez''' (July 10, 1942 – August 8, 2023), mononymously known as '''Rodríguez''', was an American musician from Detroit, Michigan.
Though his career was initially met with little fanfare in the United States, he found success in South Africa, Australia (touring the country twice in his earlier career), and New Zealand. Unbeknownst to him for decades, his music grew extremely successful and influential in South Africa, where he is believed to have sold more records than Elvis Presley.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/searching-for-sugar-man-documentary-rediscovers-musician-sixto-rodriguez/2012/07/25/gJQAUS8VBX_story.html|title='Searching for Sugar Man' documentary rediscovers musician Sixto Rodriguez|last=Malitz|first=David|date=July 26, 2012|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=May 13, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>Bendjelloul, Malik, director. ''Searching for Sugar Man''. StudioCanal, 2012.</ref> Information about him was scarce, and it was incorrectly rumored there that he had died by suicide shortly after releasing his second album.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/oct/07/popandrock1|title=The singer who came back from the dead|last=Petridis|first=Alexis|date=October 6, 2005|website=The Guardian|language=en|access-date=May 13, 2018}}</ref>
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 documentary film ''Searching for Sugar Man'' and helped give Rodriguez a measure of fame in his home country. In May 2013, Rodriguez received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from his alma mater, Wayne State University, in Detroit.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Herrera |first=Halston |date=2013-04-29 |title=Detroit folk singer Sixto Rodriguez to get honorary doctoral degree from Wayne State University |url=https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2013/04/29/detroit-folk-singer-sixto-rodriguez-to-get-honorary-doctoral-degree-from-wayne-state-university/ |access-date=2023-11-06 |website=ClickOnDetroit.com |language=en}}</ref>
Rodriguez lived in Detroit's historic Woodbridge neighborhood, through which he is seen walking in ''Searching for Sugar Man''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lacy| first=Eric |date=February 25, 2013 |title=Oscars 2013 winner: 'Searching for Sugar Man' star Rodriguez draws pride in his Detroit neighborhood |url=https://www.mlive.com/entertainment/detroit/2013/02/oscars_2013_searching_for_suga.html |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=MLive.com |language=en}}</ref> He lived a simple life, possessing no telephone, and occasionally visited bars in the Cass Corridor section of Detroit near Woodbridge and Midtown, such as the Old Miami pub, where he performed live concerts for small local crowds.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Froelich |first=John |date=2017-04-27 |title=Sixto Rodriguez Performs at Old Miami Bar in Detroit |url=https://www.freep.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/nightlife/2017/04/27/sixto-rodriguez-performs-at-old-miami-bar-in-detroit/100983244/ |access-date=2024-10-07 |website=Freep.com |language=en}}</ref>
==Biography== ===Early life=== 230px|right|thumb|Sixto Rodriguez at Way Out West in Gothenburg, Sweden, 2013 Sixto Diaz Rodriguez was born on July 10, 1942, in Detroit, Michigan. He was the sixth child of Mexican immigrant working-class parents Ramon and Maria Rodriguez. His mother died when he was three years old.<ref name="Socialstereotype">{{cite web |url=http://www.socialstereotype.com/_/Features/Entries/2008/8/11_RODRIGUEZ.html |title=Rodriguez |publisher=Socialstereotype.com |date=July 10, 1942 |access-date=June 17, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130616001318/http://www.socialstereotype.com/_/Features/Entries/2008/8/11_RODRIGUEZ.html |archive-date=June 16, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> They had joined an influx of Mexicans who came to the Midwest to work in Detroit's industries.<ref>Vargas, Zaragosa. Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit, 1917–1933. University of California Press, 1999.</ref> Mexican immigrants at that time faced both intense alienation and marginalization.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://oregonstate.edu/|title=Oregon State University|website=Oregonstate.edu|access-date=July 10, 2025}}</ref><ref>Balderrama, Francisco. A Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s. Albuquerque, NM.: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.</ref> In most of his songs, Rodriguez takes a political stance on the difficulties that faced the inner-city poor.<ref>{{cite web | last=Giba | first=Jack | url=https://carrollnews.org/156348/opinion/gibas-claim-sixto-rodriguez-is-superior-to-bob-dylan |title=Giba's Claim: Sixto Rodriguez is superior to Bob Dylan |publisher=Carroll News |date=September 16, 2021 |access-date=2024-10-09 }}</ref>
===Recording career=== In 1967, using the name "Rod Riguez" (given by his record label), he released a single, "I'll Slip Away", on the small Impact label. He did not record again for three years, until he signed with Sussex Records, then an offshoot of Buddah Records. He used his preferred professional name, "Rodriguez", after that. He recorded two albums with Sussex, ''Cold Fact'' in 1970 and ''Coming from Reality'' in November 1971. However, both sold few copies in the U.S. and he was dropped by Sussex two weeks before Christmas 1971, and Sussex itself closed in 1975.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Macamba |date=August 16, 2023 |title=Rodriguez |url=https://rockandrollparadise.com/sixto-rodriguez-8-2023/ |magazine=Rock and Roll Paradise |publisher=Rock and Roll Paradise |access-date=September 6, 2023}}</ref> While ''Searching for Sugar Man'' implied that he was in the process of recording a third album when Sussex dropped him, in 2013 Rodriguez told ''Rolling Stone'' magazine that he unsuccessfully lobbied filmmakers to cut a reference to his unfinished third album. He told the magazine, "To me it distracted. It almost cheapened the film, like it was a promo film.… I’ve written about 30 songs, and that’s pretty much what the public has heard."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Flanary |first=Patrick |date=January 29, 2013 |title=Rodriguez Weighs Potential Third Album |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rodriguez-weighs-potential-third-album-184970/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=September 6, 2023}}</ref>
Rodriguez quit his music career and in 1976 he purchased a derelict Detroit house in a government auction for $50 (US${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|50|1976}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars{{inflation-fn|US}}) in which he still lived as of 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.sugarman.org/2013/02/02/wife-of-oscar-nominated-searching-for-sugar-man-star-rodriguez-says-hell-stay-in-50-detroit-home-mlive-com/|title=Wife of Oscar-nominated 'Searching for Sugar Man' star Rodriguez says he'll stay in $50 Detroit home - MLive.com|date=February 2, 2013}}</ref> He worked in demolition and production line work, always earning a low income. He remained politically active and motivated to improve the lives of the city's working-class inhabitants and had run unsuccessfully several times for public office: for the Detroit City Council in 1989, for Mayor of Detroit in 1981 and 1993 and for the Michigan House of Representatives in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=220968|title=Rodriguez, Sixto|publisher=Our Campaigns|access-date=December 27, 2015}}</ref>
In 2013, it was announced that Rodriguez was in discussions with Steve Rowland, the producer of his ''Coming From Reality'' album. "I've written about thirty new songs," Rodriguez told ''Rolling Stone'' magazine. "He told me to send him a couple of tapes, so I'm gonna do that. I certainly want to look him up, because now he's full of ideas."<ref>{{cite web|last=Michaels|first=Sean|title=Rodriguez set to return to studio after 42-year absence|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/jan/30/rodriguez-returns-studio-after-42-years|work=The Guardian|date=January 30, 2013|access-date=January 30, 2013}}</ref>
===International fame===
Although Rodriguez remained relatively unknown in his home country, by the mid-1970s his albums were starting to gain significant airplay in Australia, Botswana, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and South Africa.<ref name="NZH Tour">{{cite news |title=Tour news: Sugar Man on his way |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/tour-news-sugar-man-on-his-way/2JHC4RLIZAHE3QLFHV7Z3ZZC5I/ |access-date=August 9, 2023 |work=The New Zealand Herald |publisher=New Zealand Media and Entertainment |date=20 January 2013}}</ref><ref name="IPBM Rags">{{cite news |title=Rags to Rags: The Lost Tale of Detroit's Sugar Man aka Sixto Rodriguez |url=https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2012/11/rags-to-rags-lost-tale-of-detroits.html |access-date=August 9, 2023 |work=It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine |date=November 28, 2012}}</ref>
When imported copies of his Sussex albums were sold out, an Australian record label, Blue Goose Music, bought the Australian rights to his recordings. Blue Goose released his two studio albums as well as a compilation album, ''At His Best'', that featured unreleased recordings from 1973 – "Can't Get Away", "I'll Slip Away" (a re-recording of his first single), and "Street Boy".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.discogs.com/release/1249413-Rodriguez-At-His-Best | title=Rodriguez – at His Best | website=Discogs | date=August 12, 1977 }}</ref>
''At His Best'' went platinum in South Africa, which at one stage was the major disc-press source of his music to the rest of the world. Rodriguez was compared to contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Cat Stevens. Many of his songs carry anti-establishment themes, and therefore boosted anti-apartheid protest culture in South Africa<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2012/07/28/157478577/rodriguez-forgotten-in-america-exalted-in-africa|title=Rodriguez: Forgotten in America, Exalted in Africa|publisher=NPR|date=July 28, 2012}}</ref> where his work influenced the music scene at the time and was also a considerable influence on a generation drafted, mostly unwillingly, to the then whites-only South African military. Reportedly, anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko was also a Rodriguez fan.<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/a-conversation-with-searching-for-sugar-man-director-malik-bendjelloul-8429429.html A conversation with Searching For Sugar Man director, Malik Bendjelloul], ''The Independent'', December 21, 2012.</ref>
Rodriguez was also successful in Australia and performed two concert tours across the country in 1979 and 1981 after Australian concert promoters had tracked him down in Detroit.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LSQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT119 |magazine=Billboard |title=Rodriguez Is Australian Cult |date=April 7, 1979}}</ref> At his first performance in Sydney he reportedly mumbled in front of a big audience, "Eight years later ... and this happens. I don’t believe it." Rodriguez later stated that after his second tour in Australia he thought it was the highlight of his career, and that "not much happened after that. No calls or anything.”<ref name="auto">{{cite magazine | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/rodriguez-10-things-you-dont-know-about-the-searching-for-sugar-man-star-99288/ | title=Rodriguez: 10 Things You Don't Know About the 'Searching for Sugar Man' Star | magazine=Rolling Stone | date=March 28, 2013 }}</ref>
In 1991, both of his albums were released on CD in South Africa for the first time, which helped preserve his fame. However, few details of his life were known to his fans and it was rumored that he had killed himself during a concert in the 1970s.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66449150 | title=Sixto Rodriguez: Searching for Sugar Man singer dies aged 81 | work=BBC News | date=August 9, 2023 }}</ref>
{{anchor|Eva}}Despite his success abroad, Rodriguez's fame in South Africa had remained unknown to him until 1997 when his eldest daughter, Eva, came across a website dedicated to him.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/oct/07/popandrock1 | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=The singer who came back from the dead | first=Alexis | last=Petridis | date=October 7, 2005 | access-date=May 23, 2010}}</ref> After contacting the website and learning of his fame in the country, Rodriguez went on his first South African tour, playing six concerts before thousands of fans. A documentary, ''Dead Men Don't Tour: Rodriguez in South Africa'' was made in 1998. He also performed in Sweden before returning to South Africa in 2001 and 2005.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://medium.com/@vanko/jesus-sixto-rodriguez-performance-at-kalamazoo-state-theater-47253253bbdc | title=Jesus Sixto Rodriguez performance at Kalamazoo State Theater | date=December 14, 2015 }}</ref> 230px|right|thumb|Sixto Rodriguez at Manchester Academy, December 2, 2012 In 1998, Rodriguez's signature song, "Sugar Man", was covered by the South African rock band Just Jinjer (then spelled ''Just Jinger'') and, later, by the Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini. In 2002, it was used by disc-jockey David Holmes to open his mix album, ''Come Get It I Got It'', gaining Rodriguez more international airplay. "Sugar Man" had previously gained even more fame by having been sampled in the song "You're Da Man" in rapper Nas's 2001 album ''Stillmatic''.<ref>{{cite web|author=Brian Currin |url=http://www.sugarman.org/rod_sample.html |title=Rodriguez – The Music: "...You're Da Man, Sugar Man..." |publisher=Sugarman.org |access-date=June 17, 2013}}</ref>
In April 2007 and 2010, he returned to Australia to play at the East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival,<ref>{{cite web |author=Members Home Book Tickets FAQ's Help |url=http://www.bluesfest.com.au/pages/?ParentPageID=1&PageID=6 |title=East Coast Blues and Roots Festival (Also known as Byron Bay Bluesfest Archive) |publisher=Bluesfest.com.au |access-date=June 17, 2013 |archive-date=May 1, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501170840/http://www.bluesfest.com.au/pages/?ParentPageID=1&PageID=6 |url-status=dead }}</ref> as well as sell out shows in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. His song "Sugar Man" was featured in the 2006 film ''Candy'', starring Heath Ledger.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Colothan |first=Scott |date=2023-08-09 |title=Sixto Rodriguez, subject of the Searching For Sugar Man film, dies aged 81 |url=https://planetradio.co.uk/planet-rock/news/rock-news/rodriguez-dead/ |access-date=2023-11-06 |website=Planet Rock}}</ref> Singer-songwriter Ruarri Joseph covered Rodriguez's song "Rich Folks Hoax" for his third studio album.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/shoulder-to-the-wheel-mw0002056014 | title=Ruarri Joseph - Shoulder to the Wheel Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic | website=AllMusic }}</ref> Irish singer-songwriter Darragh O'Dea mentions Rodriguez and references "Inner City Blues" in his 2020 single "Lost Dog Loyal".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sixto Rodriguez Biography, Age, Early Life, Education, Career, Family, Personal Life, Nationality, Awards, Nomination, Facts, Social Media, Net Worth, Height, Weight, Relationship & More |url=https://labaranyau.com/sixto-rodriguez-biography-age-early-life-education-career-family-personal-life-nationality-awards-nomination-facts-social-media-net-worth-height-weight-relationship-more/ |access-date=2023-11-06 |website=Labaran Yau |language=}}</ref> Rodriguez continued to tour in various countries until his final show in 2021.<ref name="concertarchives.org">{{Cite web |title=Rodriguez Concert History |url=https://www.concertarchives.org/bands/rodriguez |access-date=2023-11-06 |website=Concert Archives}}</ref>
Rodriguez's albums ''Cold Fact'' and ''Coming from Reality'' were re-released by Light in the Attic Records in 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hangout.altsounds.com/news/106134-rodriguez-coming-from-reality-gets-new-lease-of-life.html |title=Rodriguez 'Coming From Reality' gets new lease of life |access-date=March 17, 2009 |author=Stevenson, Mark |date=March 12, 2009 |publisher=altsounds.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090316000020/http://hangout.altsounds.com/news/106134-rodriguez-coming-from-reality-gets-new-lease-of-life.html |archive-date=March 16, 2009}}</ref> They were rereleased again on CD and vinyl in 2019 by Universal Music Enterprises, the current rights holder of the material.
In 2014, the French deep house and electro music producer The Avener released a new version of "Hate Street Dialogue" originally appearing on Rodriguez's album ''Cold Fact''. The version by The Avener features Rodriguez's vocals. The release charted in France.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=The+Avener+feat.+Rodriguez&titel=Hate+Street+Dialogue&cat=s|title=lescharts.com – The Avener feat. Rodriguez – Hate Street Dialogue|first=Steffen|last=Hung|website=lescharts.com}}</ref>
===''Searching for Sugar Man''=== {{main|Searching for Sugar Man}}
In January, 2012, the Sundance Film Festival hosted the premiere of the documentary film ''Searching for Sugar Man'', by Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul, detailing the efforts of two South African fans to see if his rumored death was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him. The documentary, produced by Simon Chinn and John Battsek, went on to win the World Cinema Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award, World Cinema Documentary.<ref>{{cite web|last=Yuan |first=Jada |url=https://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2012/01/sundance-the-electrifying-search-for-sugar-man.html |title=Sundance: The Electrifying Search For Sugar Man |date=January 21, 2012 |work=New York |access-date=June 17, 2013}}</ref>
''Sugar Man'' played at other film festivals, including the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri and the summer Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan, where Rodriguez and Bendjelloul appeared on stage with festival organizer, award-winning film director Michael Moore.<ref>{{Citation |last=Howe |first=Gary |title=Flickr: Traverse City Film Festival |date=2012-08-01 |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/tcfilmfest/7693047564/ |access-date=2024-03-09}}</ref> The film opened in New York and Los Angeles on July 27, 2012, before a larger domestic cinematic run.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sonyclassics.com/searchingforsugarman/ |title=Searching for Sugar Man || A Sony Pictures Classics Release |publisher=Sonyclassics.com |access-date=August 29, 2012}}</ref> It was also screened as part of cinema programs in some European music festivals during the summer of 2012, including the Way Out West festival in August, where Rodriguez also performed. In November it won both the Audience Award and the Best Music Documentary Award at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.<ref name="IDFA">{{cite web|url=http://www.idfa.nl/industry/latest-news/First-Cousin-Once-Removed-wins-VPRO-IDFA-Award-for-Best-Feature-Length-Documentary.aspx |title=Winners of the IDFA 2012 Awards announced |publisher=International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam |location=Amsterdam, Netherlands |access-date=January 26, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130129050716/http://www.idfa.nl/industry/latest-news/First-Cousin-Once-Removed-wins-VPRO-IDFA-Award-for-Best-Feature-Length-Documentary.aspx |archive-date=January 29, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
The ''Searching for Sugar Man'' soundtrack features a compilation of Rodriguez tracks from his albums ''Cold Fact'' and ''Coming from Reality'', in addition to three previously unreleased songs from his third unfinished album. The album was released on July 24, 2012.<ref name="Legacy Recordings">{{cite web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/04/idUS191809+04-May-2012+PRN20120504 |title=''Searching for Sugar Man'' Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Brings Rodriguez's 1970s Music to a New Generation |date=May 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130313102336/http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/04/idUS191809+04-May-2012+PRN20120504 |publisher=Legacy Recordings |archive-date=March 13, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> To allay possible concerns raised in the film about how Rodriguez was apparently cheated by his previous record label, the back cover bears the statement "Rodriguez receives royalties from the sale of this release."<ref>{{cite web|title=Rodriguez – 'Searching For Sugar Man (The Soundtrack)' (Audio CD)|url=http://ughh.com/rodriguez-searching-for-sugar-man-the-soundtrack/SNYL541850CD/|publisher=Ughh.com|access-date=February 25, 2013|archive-date=May 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512221127/http://ughh.com/rodriguez-searching-for-sugar-man-the-soundtrack/SNYL541850CD/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
''Searching for Sugar Man'' won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary on February 10, 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.musicfilmweb.com/2013/02/grammy-bafta-sugar-man-big-easy-express/|title=Awards Watch: Big Easy Express Wins Music Film Grammy, Sugar Man Bags BAFTA|first=Andy|last=Markowitz|website=Musicfilmweb.com|access-date=July 10, 2025}}</ref>
On January 13, 2013, ''Searching for Sugar Man'' was nominated for and, on February 24, 2013, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 85th Academy Awards.<ref name="DetroitFree Press Rides Wave">{{cite news|last=McCollum|first=Brian|title=Sixto Rodriguez rides the wave of 'Searching for Sugar Man' success|url=http://www.freep.com/article/20130110/ENT01/130110059/Sixto-Rodriguez-Seaching-for-Sugar-Man-Oscar-Academy-Awards|access-date=January 23, 2013|newspaper=Detroit Free Press|date=January 10, 2013}}</ref> Rodriguez declined to attend the award ceremony as he did not want to overshadow the filmmakers' achievement.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Rodriguez: 10 Thing You Don't Know About the 'Searching for Sugar Man' Star|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/rodriguez-10-things-you-dont-know-about-the-searching-for-sugar-man-star-20130328|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=July 8, 2013|author=Andy Greene|date=March 28, 2013}}</ref> Upon accepting his award, Chinn remarked on such generosity, "That just about says everything about that man and his story that you want to know."<ref>{{cite web|agency=Reuters|author=Sapa-AFP|title=Sugar Man takes Oscar|url=http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/sugar-man-takes-oscar-1.1476258|publisher=DailyNews|access-date=February 25, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150208184529/http://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/sugar-man-takes-oscar-1.1476258#.VNeu3HbP32c | archive-date=February 8, 2015 }}</ref> Malik Bendjelloul also said on stage, "Thanks to one of the greatest singers ever, Rodriguez."<ref>{{cite news|last=Germain |first=David |title=Oscars 2013: 'Argo' Takes Home Best Picture at 85th Academy Awards |url=http://news.moviefone.com/2013/02/25/oscars-2013-argo-academy-awards_n_2756906.html?just_reloaded=1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411093054/http://news.moviefone.com/2013/02/25/oscars-2013-argo-academy-awards_n_2756906.html?just_reloaded=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 11, 2013 |access-date=February 25, 2013 |newspaper=Moviefone |date=February 25, 2013 }}</ref>
===Belated success in the United States and Europe=== After the cinematic release of ''Searching for Sugar Man'' in 2012, Rodriguez experienced a flush of media exposure and fan interest in the United States, as well as Europe. He appeared as a musical guest on the ''Late Show with David Letterman'' on August 14, 2012, performing "Crucify Your Mind",<ref>{{Citation |title=Rodriguez Performs "Crucify Your Mind" {{!}} Letterman | date=August 9, 2023 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhMxmubp-5Q |access-date=2024-03-09 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Russell |first=Calum |date=2023-08-09 |title=Revisit Sixto Rodriguez's thrilling debut on David Letterman |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/revisit-sixto-rodriguezs-spectacular-debut-on-david-letterman/ |access-date=2023-11-06 |website=Far Out Magazine |language=}}</ref> and performed "Can't Get Away" on ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'' on January 11, 2013.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} thumb|Rodriguez performs at Sasquatch Music Festival in 2014 Prominent news coverage included a mid-August 2012 CNN feature story with an interview of Rodriguez discussing his life and career resurgence. On October 7, 2012, Rodriguez was featured on the U.S. television news program ''60 Minutes''.<ref>[https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rodriguez-the-rock-icon-who-didnt-know-it/ Rodriguez: The Rock Icon Who Didn't Know It], reported by Bob Simon, segment produced by Michael Gavshon, CBS News, October 7, 2012.</ref> On November 18, 2012, Rodriguez was interviewed on the U.K. Sunday morning news program ''The Andrew Marr Show'', where he also played a short song over the closing credits. He performed on the BBC2 program ''Later... with Jools Holland''<ref>{{cite news|last=Holland |first=Jools |title=Rodriguez chats to Jools Holland |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01187hp |publisher=BBC }}</ref> on November 16, 2012, and was interviewed by Holland.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS0q8JxDsgc | title=Sixto Rodriguez Interview | website=YouTube | date=November 17, 2012 }}</ref> Additionally, he performed on Internet web series shows such as ''The Weekly Comet''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZcXrnezHuE | title=Oscar Winner Malik Bendjelloul and Sixto Rodriguez Exclusive Interview | website=YouTube | date=May 14, 2014 }}</ref>
In addition to concerts in Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/culture/8189463/Sugar-Man-Rodriquez-to-play-Wellington|title=Sugar Man Rodriquez to play Wellington|website=Stuff|date=January 16, 2013 }}</ref> Rodriguez's tour schedule for 2013 included his most highly attended U.S. concerts to date, such as the [https://www.annarbor.com/entertainment/rodriguez/ Ann Arbor Folk Festival] in January, a stint at the Beacon Theatre in New York City in April, and a spot at the 2014 Sasquatch Music Festival at The Gorge Amphitheatre, as well as other concerts in Europe.<ref name="concertarchives.org"/> He played on the Park Stage at the Glastonbury Festival, U.K., in June 2013. On July 5, 2013, Rodriguez opened the Montreux Jazz festival.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Nebehay |first=Stephanie |date=2013-07-05 |title='Sugar Man' Rodriguez opens Montreux Jazz Festival |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-montreux-jazz-rodriguez-idUKBRE96400020130705 |access-date=2023-11-06}}</ref> On August 10, 2013, he headlined at the Wilderness Festival in the U.K. In 2015, he opened for Brian Wilson's tour with Wilson, Al Jardine and Blondie Chaplin of the Beach Boys.<ref>{{cite web|first=Ivan | last=Kokoulin | date= December 14, 2015 | url=https://medium.com/@vanko/jesus-sixto-rodriguez-performance-at-kalamazoo-state-theater-47253253bbdc |title=Jesus Sixto Rodriguez performance at Kalamazoo State Theater|publisher=Medium |access-date=September 6, 2023}}</ref>
Rodriguez received additional exposure in 2014 as the Dave Matthews Band often covered "Sugar Man" in their summer tour.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dmbalmanac.com/songs/summary.aspx?sid=781|title=DMBAlmanac.com²|website=Dmbalmanac.com|access-date=July 10, 2025}}</ref> Matthews would often preface the song with his experience as a fan of Rodriguez growing up in South Africa and his surprise at Rodriguez's lack of popularity in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Finding Sugar Man: The Day Dave Matthews Met Rodriguez |url=https://www.jambase.com/article/dave-matthews-rodriguez-sugar-man-cover |access-date=2024-03-09 |website=JamBase |language=en-US |quote=…I discovered when I came back here (from South Africa) was that nobody ever heard of this guy …he was as important to me as Bob Dylan, as Cat Stevens, as Marvin Gaye… And all these people never heard of him?… I got to meet him today and it was a highlight of my life…}}</ref>
The film ''Searching for Sugar Man'' strongly implied that Rodriguez had been cheated out of royalties over the years, specifically by Clarence Avant. Rodriguez first expressed indifference to these "symbols of success" but then filed a lawsuit in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/23/rodriguez-royalties-musician-south-africa_n_2749409.html|title=Rodriguez Seeks Lost Royalties From Albums Sold Overseas While He Lived In Obscurity|website=HuffPost |date=March 5, 2016|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305084315/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/23/rodriguez-royalties-musician-south-africa_n_2749409.html|archive-date=March 5, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref> In 2022, the year before his death, the lawsuit was reported to have been settled with no amount disclosed.<ref name=vandenheever>{{citation |last=van den Heever |first=Megan|title=Paid his dues: Sixto 'Sugar Man' Rodriguez to get royalties by 80th birthday| newspaper=The South African |date=October 6, 2022 |url=https://www.thesouthafrican.com/lifestyle/celeb-news/sixto-rodriguez-music-album-at-his-best-sugar-man-bootleg-south-africa-tour-latest-news/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Culliford |first=Graeme |title='Sugar Man' Sixto Rodriguez wins battle for royalties payout ahead of 80th birthday |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sugar-man-sixto-rodriguez-wins-27146924 |access-date=July 3, 2022}}</ref>
===Later activity=== In 2015, Craig Bartholomew Strydom and Stephen "Sugar" Segerman published a book entitled ''Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez''.<ref name="Bdlive2015-11-13" /> A review in ''Business Day'' called the book "probably one of the most unusual rock 'n roll stories out there".{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}
Rodriguez headlined a tour in August 2018,<ref name="Irish Mirror">{{Cite web |last=O'Toole |first=Scarlett |date=2023-08-09 |title=Legendary Sugar Man singer Sixto Rodriguez dies after suffering a stroke |url=https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/celebrity-news/legendary-sugar-man-singer-sixto-30665289 |access-date=2024-03-09 |website=Irish Mirror |language=en}}</ref> ending with a hometown show at Detroit's Garden Theater.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mqq0c222dQ |title=Rodriguez "Sixteen Tons" LIVE @ The Garden Theater, Detroit 8-31-2018|website=YouTube }}</ref> His final North American concert tour in late 2019/early 2020 culminated on February 20, 2020, at Nashville's City Winery.
Rodriguez and the process of his rediscovery was the subject of a 2022 episode of ''Outlook'' on the BBC World Service.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC World Service – Outlook, My hunt for Rodriguez, a missing music legend |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct34wg |access-date=2022-09-01 |publisher=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>
==Later life and death== In March 2013, ''Rolling Stone'' wrote that Rodriguez was suffering from glaucoma and was going blind. The disease had by then dramatically limited his vision and forced him to walk very slowly and often clutched to someone else's arm. They quoted Rodriguez as saying, "I'm still able to make out some people in the crowd at my shows".<ref name="auto"/>
In August 2022, ''Le Monde'' reported that Rodriguez had become blind, and that he was still living in the same house in Detroit.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2022/08/29/sitting-down-with-sixto-rodriguez-a-musician-with-a-bittersweet-life_5995106_117.html | title=Sitting down with Sixto Rodriguez, a musician with a bittersweet life | newspaper=Le Monde.fr | date=August 29, 2022 }}</ref>
In February 2023, Rodriguez suffered a stroke, then had surgery in March to repair stroke damage, followed by post-operative physical therapy.<ref>{{Cite web |last=SugarMan.org |date=2023-03-03 |title=RODRIGUEZ RECOVERING WELL AFTER SURGERY |url=https://blog.sugarman.org/2023/03/03/rodriguez-recovering-well-after-surgery/ |access-date=2024-03-09 |website=SugarMan.org |language=en |quote=Rodriguez is well and on the mend after being operated on, following the stroke that he had in February. The surgery to repair the damage caused by the stroke was successful, and Rodriguez is feeling strong, and, following the physical therapy that he is currently undergoing, as part of his post-op rehab, his family are hopeful that he will be returning home soon to continue and complete his healing process. Rodriguez, who will be turning 81 in July, is strong and in good spirits.}}</ref> Rodriguez's condition later worsened and was placed in hospice care.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McCollum |first=Brian |date=2023-08-12 |title=Detroit honors singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez during all-day event at Majestic Theatre |url=https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2023/08/12/sixto-rodriguez-fans-honor-singer-songwriter-at-detroit-tribute-show/70577669007/ |access-date=2024-03-09 |website=Detroit Free Press |language=en-US |quote=under hospice care for a week amid a worsening state following a February stroke. He was buried Friday morning at Holy Cross Cemetery in Detroit. |ref=Detroit Free Press 23-08-12}}</ref> He died on August 8, 2023, at the age of 81.<ref name="Irish Mirror" /><ref>{{cite web | title=Sixto Rodriguez Has Passed Away | date=August 9, 2023| url=https://blog.sugarman.org/2023/08/09/sixto-rodriguez-has-passed-away/}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Sixto Rodriguez, Detroit-born musician and subject of 'Searching for Sugar Man' documentary, dies at 81 |url=https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/sixto-rodriguez-detroit-born-musician-and-subject-of-searching-for-sugar-man-documentary-dies-at-81 |access-date=9 August 2023 |publisher=Fox 2 Detroit |date=9 August 2023}}</ref><ref name="reuters">{{Cite web|author=Mary Milliken |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/searching-sugar-man-singer-sixto-rodriguez-dead-81-2023-08-09/ |title=United States: 'Searching for Sugar Man' singer Sixto Rodriguez dead at 81 |website=Reuters |date=2023-08-09 |access-date=2023-09-05}}</ref> A concert celebrated his life on August 12, 2023, at Detroit's Majestic Theatre.<ref>Ogden, Amber. "Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, Once Called a Man of Mystery, Leaves Behind a Prolific Legacy." ''El Central Hispanic News'', 17 August 2023, p. 1-2.</ref>
{{anchor|Rayma|Konny|Sandra|Regan}}He was first married to Rayma Rawa and, since 1984, to Constance "Konny" Rodriguez née Koskos, and with them he had three daughters, Eva<!-- Eva Alice Rodriguez-Koller -->, Sandra<!-- Sandra Rodriguez-Kennedy --> and Regan<!-- Regan Rodriguez-Barachkov (somtimes also spelled Barachov) -->.<ref name="reuters" />
Two Detroit area murals honor Rodriguez, one on a commercial building on Trumbull, across the street from his alma mater, Wayne State,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Aguilar |first=Louis |title=Muralist builds bridges between Detroit's past, present |url=https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2016/06/28/detroit-muralist-macdonald/86497078/ |access-date=2024-03-09 |website=The Detroit News |language=en-US |quote=Big B Liquor is on the corner of Trumbull and the Interstate 94 service drive on the edge of Wayne State University’s Tom Adams Field. It’s in Woodbridge, one of the many parts of Detroit that’s been MacDonald’s muse for decades. Her party store paintings are celebratory, larger-than-life portraits of Detroiters past and present. Among the portraits: The musician Sixto Rodriguez}}</ref> and another on the entire side of an apartment building at Vernor Highway and Sharon. Both were created while he was still alive.<ref>{{Citation |title=Detroit folk rock singer Rodriguez dies at 81 | date=August 9, 2023 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaB21jPvyeg&t=49 |access-date=2024-03-09 |publisher=Click On Detroit {{!}} Local 4 {{!}} WDIV |language=en}}</ref>
==Discography== 230px|right|thumb| Rodriguez performing in Zürich, 24 March 2014 [[File:Rodriguezlive2007.jpg|230px|right|thumb|Performing with his backup band at The Corner Hotel, Melbourne, 8 April 2007. From left to right: Jim Kelly, Greg Lyon, and Rodriguez]]
===Albums=== ; Studio albums * 1970: ''Cold Fact'', Sussex<ref name="Discogs">{{Discogs artist|98580-Sixto-Rodriguez}}</ref> * 1971: ''Coming from Reality'', Sussex<ref name="Discogs" />
; Live albums * 1981: ''Rodriguez Alive'', Blue Goose Music<ref name="Discogs" /><small>(Australia)</small> * 1998: ''Live Fact'', Columbia<ref name="Discogs" /><small>(South Africa)</small> * 2016: ''Rodriguez Rocks: Live In Australia'', Inertia<ref name="Discogs" /><small>(Australia)</small><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/cd-rodriguez-rodriguez-rocks-live-in-australia-cd |title=Rodriguez Rocks: Live In Australia – Rodriguez|publisher=JB HI-FI|access-date=September 6, 2023}}</ref>
; Compilations * 1976: ''After the Fact'' <small>(reissue of ''Coming from Reality'') (South Africa)</small><ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/12994-coming-from-reality/ |title=Coming From Reality – Rodriguez|publisher=Pitchfork – Condé Nast|access-date=September 6, 2023}}</ref> * 1977: ''At His Best'', Blue Goose Music<ref name="Discogs" /><small>(Australia)</small> * 1996: ''The Best of Rodriguez'' <small>(South Africa)</small><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theaudiodb.com/artist/118424?a=4 |title=Rodriguez|publisher=TheAudioDB.com|access-date=September 6, 2023}}</ref> * 2005: ''Sugarman: The Best of Rodriguez'', PT Music<ref name="Discogs" /><small>(South Africa)</small> * 2012: ''Searching for Sugar Man'', Light in the Attic, Legacy<ref name="Discogs" /><small>(soundtrack)</small> * 2013: ''Coffret Rodriguez'' <small>(2-CD set of ''Cold Fact'' and ''Coming from Reality'')</small> FR No. 114<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacyrecordings.fr/decouvrez-sixto-rodriguez-avec-le-film-searching-for-sugar-man/ |title=Rodriguez|date=November 12, 2012 |publisher=Sony Music Entertainment France |access-date=September 6, 2023}}</ref>
====Album reissues==== {| class="wikitable" |- ! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Year ! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Title ! scope="col" colspan="10"| Peak positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2"| Certification |- ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| US<br><ref name=usbb>{{cite magazine|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=rodriguez|chart=all}}|title=Billboard 200 Charts > Rodriguez|magazine=Billboard |access-date=February 8, 2012}}</ref> ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| AUS<br><ref name=aus>{{cite web|url=http://australian-charts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Rodriguez|title=australian-charts.com – Discography Rodriguez|publisher=Hung Medien|access-date=August 19, 2014}}</ref> ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| BEL<br>(Fl)<br><ref name=bel-vl>{{cite web|url=http://www.ultratop.be/nl/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Rodriguez|title=Belgian Charts (Flanders) > Rodriguez|publisher=ultratop.be|access-date=September 13, 2013}}</ref> ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| DEN<br><ref name=den>{{cite web|url=https://danishcharts.dk/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Rodriguez|title=Danish Charts > Rodriguez|publisher=danishcharts.dk Hung Medien|access-date=March 2, 2010}}</ref> ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| FRA<br><ref name=fra>{{cite web|url=http://www.lescharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Rodriguez|title=French Charts > Rodriguez|language=fr|publisher=lescharts.com Hung Medien|access-date=February 2, 2011}}</ref> ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| NLD<br><ref name=nlalb>{{cite web|url=http://www.dutchcharts.nl/search.asp?search=rodriguez&cat=a|title=Dutch Album Charts > Rodriguez|language=nl|publisher=dutchcharts.nl Hung Medien|access-date=August 31, 2011}}</ref> ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| NZ<br><ref name=nz>{{cite web|url=https://charts.nz/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Rodriguez|title=charts.nz – Discography Rodriguez|publisher=Hung Medien|access-date=August 19, 2014}}</ref> ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| SWE<br><ref name=swe>{{cite web|url=http://swedishcharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Rodriguez|title=Swedish Charts > Rodriguez|publisher=swedishcharts.com Hung Medien|access-date=March 2, 2010}}</ref> ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| SWI<br><ref name=swiss>{{cite web|url=http://hitparade.ch/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Rodriguez|title=Swiss Charts > Rodriguez|publisher=hitparade.ch Hung Medien|access-date=March 11, 2013}}</ref> ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:85%;"| UK<br><ref name=UK>{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/32989/rodriguez/|title=Official Charts Company – Rodriguez|website=Official Charts |access-date=February 22, 2016}}</ref> |- | style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"| 2012 | ''Searching for Sugar Man'' | style="text-align:center;"| 76 | style="text-align:center;"| 17 | style="text-align:center;"| 28 | style="text-align:center;"| 2 | style="text-align:center;"| 28 | style="text-align:center;"| 32 | style="text-align:center;"| 9 | style="text-align:center;"| 1 | style="text-align:center;"| 22 | style="text-align:center;"| 26 | * ARIA: Gold<ref name=ARIACert14>{{cite certification|region=Australia|artist=Rodriguez|type=album|certyear=2014|access-date=28 December 2021}}</ref> * GLF: Gold |- | ''Cold Fact'' | style="text-align:center;"| 78 | style="text-align:center;"| 11 | style="text-align:center;"| 50 | style="text-align:center;"| 4 | style="text-align:center;"| 81 | style="text-align:center;"| 54 | style="text-align:center;"| 20 | style="text-align:center;"| 10 | style="text-align:center;"| 20 | style="text-align:center;"| 39 | * ARIA: Platinum |- | ''Coming from Reality'' | style="text-align:center;"| 161 | style="text-align:center;"| 25 | style="text-align:center;"| 109 | style="text-align:center;"| 12 | style="text-align:center;"| 135 | style="text-align:center;"| 91 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 16 | style="text-align:center;"| — | style="text-align:center;"| 73 | |}
===Singles=== {| class="wikitable" ! Year !! '''Song title''' !! '''B-side''' || Notes |- |1967||"I'll Slip Away" || "You'd Like to Admit It" || Credited as Rod Riguez |- |rowspan=2 | 1970||"Inner City Blues" || "Forget It" || |- |"To Whom It May Concern" || "I Think of You" || |- |1972||"Sugar Man" || "Inner City Blues" || rowspan=3 |Released in Australia |- |1978||"Climb Up on My Music" || |- |2002||"Sugar Man" || "Tom Cat" (by Muddy Waters) |}
'''Singles featured in''' {| class="wikitable" !align="center" rowspan="2" width="10"|Year !align="center" rowspan="2" width="220"|Album !align="center" colspan="1" width="20"|Peak positions |- ! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | FRA<br><ref name=fra/> |- | style="text-align:center;"|2014 | "Hate Street Dialogue"<br><small>(The Avener featuring Rodriguez)</small> | style="text-align:center;"|101 |}
"Sugar Man" is also included in the 2006 Australian film ''Candy''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424880/ | title=Candy | year=2006 |publisher=IMDb }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=Bdlive2015-11-13> {{cite news | url = http://www.bdlive.co.za/life/books/2015/11/13/book-review-sugarman | title = Book review: Sugarman | date = November 13, 2015 | author = Alistair Anderson | work = Business Day | access-date = November 15, 2015 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081712/http://www.bdlive.co.za/life/books/2015/11/13/book-review-sugarman | archive-date = March 4, 2016 | url-status=dead | quote = So, this is a book about a little-known man about whom an Oscar-winning documentary was made in 2006. Set scepticism aside{{snd}} Sugarman: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez collates interesting facts and discusses the many stories that relate to Rodriguez’s life, and authors Craig Strydom and Stephen Segerman’s search for their musical hero. }} </ref> }}
==External links== {{wikiquote|Sixto_Rodriguez|Sixto Rodriguez}} {{Commons category|Sixto Rodriguez}} {{External links|date=July 2025}} *{{Find a Grave|258232193}} * [https://archive.today/20160809191953/http://suracapulco.mx/espectaculos/salta-a-la-fama-el-rockero-de-origen-mexicano-sixto-rodriguez-tras-el-oscar-a-documental-sobre-el/ The article on Sixto's ethnicity.] * {{Official website|http://www.sugarman.org/}} * {{IMDb name|4582541|Rodriguez}} * {{discogs artist|Sixto Rodriguez}} * [http://larecord.com/interviews/2008/11/21/rodriguez-keep-talking-baby/ September 2008 interview] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227104043/http://larecord.com/interviews/2008/11/21/rodriguez-keep-talking-baby/ |date=February 27, 2021 }} with the ''L.A. Record'' * [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/aug/08/popandrock3 ''Guardian'' (UK) article] * [https://www.smh.com.au/news/gig-reviews/sixto-rodriguez/2007/04/06/1175366447879.html ''Sydney Morning Herald'' article] * [http://www.lightintheattic.net/releases/rodriguez/ Official reissue 2008] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227105337/http://www.lightintheattic.net/releases/rodriguez/ |date=February 27, 2021 }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080927070112/http://www.dailymusicguide.com/Reviews/rodriguez_cold_fact_album_review_29082008_1555.aspx ''Cold Fact'' review] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100103030512/http://rocknrolldating.com/interview/rodriguez Interview] on RocknRollDating * [http://mg.co.za/article/1998-02-20-fact-rodriguez-lives Mail & Guardian February 20, 1998: ''Fact: Rodriguez lives''] * [https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2012/08/04/the-mystery-of-the-sugar-man The Mystery of the Sugar Man], ''The Economist'', 2012
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