Sixto Rodriguez, who lived in obscurity as his music career flamed out early in the U.S. only to find success in South Africa and a stardom he was unaware of, died Tuesday in Detroit. He was ...

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 ...

A historic Detroit home with a rich musical legacy, once owned by the late singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, is on the market for $399,000. Tucked in the city’s Woodbridge neighborhood near Wayne ...

MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) - American singer-songwriter Sixto "Sugar Man" Rodriguez, virtually unknown a few years ago, opened the Montreux Jazz Festival on Thursday, which American producer and ...

When I heard that Rodriguez, celebrated in the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, was dead at 81, the news was less stunning to me than when I first heard he was a rock star in South Africa. It was ...

Like many former musicians, Sixto Rodriguez finally succumbed to the frenzied madness of the music business in the early 1970s, gave up the journey and settled in Detroit for what could be described ...

Ed Morales interviews the subject of the documentary 'Searching for Sugar Man' July 26, 2012— -- Meeting Rodriguez, dressed head to toe in black and wearing sunglasses seemingly designed to ...

Who were the most important American songwriters after Woodstock? Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Rodriguez. Everyone knew that where I was growing up, among the malcontent teenagers of white suburbia in ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Sixto Diaz Rodriguez can't hit the high notes like he used to, but that didn't matter to his fans. The 70-year-old singer made famous by the Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for ...