OTTAWA, ON - SEPTEMBER 17: Rodriguez performs on day 5 of the CityFolk Festival at The Great Lawn at Lansdowne Park on September 17, 2017 in Ottawa, Canada. (Photo by Mark Horton/WireImage) Cover art ...

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 ...

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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 ...