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IN 1979, SIXTO RODRIGUEZ was a construction worker in his home town of Detroit when he learned that "Cold Fact," the album he had released in 1970 with no success in the United States, had become a ...

Rodriguez, the singer-songwriter whose improbable, stranger-than-fiction career was surveyed in the Oscar-winning 2012 documentary “Searching For Sugar Man,” died on August 9. He was 81. The news was ...

Detroit musical artist Sixto Diaz Rodriguez died at 81 years of age on Tuesday. The sixth son of a Native American mother and a Mexican-American steelworker, his music reached a significant US ...

DETROIT — Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, the Detroit musician who rose to international fame as the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary “Searching for Sugar Man,” died Tuesday. He was 81. Known ...

Sixto Rodriguez was a rock star who didn't even know it for years. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SUGAR MAN") SIXTO RODRIGUEZ: (Singing) Sugar man. SIMON: Released two albums in the early 1970s. They went ...

Rodriguez, Detroit’s blast from the past musical success story, is getting re-released on a format that’s also a blast from the past: the cassette. Burger Records (who have made a name for themselves ...

Sixto Rodriguez, known professionally as Rodriguez, has passed away. His family announced the news on Facebook Wednesday (August 9). The star of the Oscar-winning documentary, Searching for Sugar Man, ...