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 ...

One of last year’s more bizarre comebacks–his third, by some reckonings–belongs to Detroit’s Rodriguez (born Sixto Diaz Rodriguez), a child of Mexican immigrants who forged a compelling mix of ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Thanks for your time, and you can thank me for mine. And after that's said, forget it. Bag it, man." And after that was said — the last words heard on his 1970 debut, the presciently titled Cold Fact ...

I bought Coming from Reality, Rodriguez’s second LP, at Record Town in Central Park Mall in 1971. However, other than Rodriguez’s Mexican-Indio face on the cover, the recording produced in England had ...

the 1970s musician known as Rodriguez is seen in an image from the documentary 'Searching for Sugar Man.' He plays Tipitina's May 7. (Photo by Sony Pictures Classics) There are some that say, with due ...

Sixto Rodriguez was a rock star who didn't even know it for years. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SUGAR MAN") SIXTO RODRIGUEZ: (Singing) Sugar man. SIMON: Released two albums in the early 1970s. They went ...

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 ...