Detroit musician Sixto Rodriguez, the subject of the documentary “‘Searching for Sugar Man” – which won the 2013 best documentary Academy Award – has died, according to an announcement on his official ...
Friday, Aug. 9 will mark one year since the death of Sixto Rodriguez, the cult-favorite folk rock musician from Detroit whose politically charged songs drew acclaim from around the world. He was 81.
What comes through strongly in the remarkable story director Malik Bendjelloul tells in Searching for Sugar Man is the inescapable repression that artists — and societies — suffer when dissent is ...