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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 — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...