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 ...

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 ...

Sixto Rodriguez, known professionally as Rodriguez, has passed away. His family announced the news on Facebook Wednesday (August 9). The star of the Oscar-winning documentary, Searching for Sugar Man, ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...