Probably best known elsewhere for the documentary Searching For Sugar Man rather than his music, but he was a legend here.
Not mentioned in the doco was that he also had some success in Australia in the 1980s, and toured with Midnight Oil Down Under.
RIP.
Sixto Rodriguez, musician and subject of award-winning documentary “Searching for Sugar Man” has died.
Yeah, it was very much from the South African perspective, where we all thought he was already dead.
Oh no! This is my favorite discovering-new-music memory of all time:
Summer of, I think, 2013 or thereabouts. Backpacker’s hostel in Copenhagen, me still very jet-lagged, but they’re offering free breakfast so I drag myself out of bed. There’s some music playing in the background. And suddenly I find myself thinking holy holy shit who is this? And memorize winter’s asleep at my window so I can Google it when I get home four weeks later.
R.I.P.