This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DETROIT (AP) — Sixto Rodriguez, who lived in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fans have been celebrating the life of lifelong Detroiter and mysterious singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez with parties and music nights since his death in August. Another tribute event, a film ...

You released two albums in the ’70s, Cold Fact and Coming from Reality, that didn’t take off in the U.S. Then 25 years later, you discovered you were as big in South Africa as Bob Dylan and the ...

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 ...

The room was almost in complete darkness expect for a couple of spotlights on Sixto Rodriguez. There was nothing to see other than him, nothing to hear beyond him. “Just a song we shared…” he began ...