Sixto rodriguez early life

American musician (–)

Musical artist

Sixto Diaz Rodríguez (July 10, – August 8, ), mononymously known as Rodríguez, was an American musician from Detroit, Michigan.

Sixto rodriguez early life

Though his career was initially met with little fanfare in the United States, he found success in South Africa, Australia (touring the country twice in his earlier career), and New Zealand. Unbeknownst to him for decades, his music grew extremely successful and influential in South Africa, where he is believed to have sold more records than Elvis Presley.^[1][2] Information about him was scarce, and it was incorrectly rumored there that he had died by suicide shortly after releasing his second album.^[3]

In the s, determined South African fans managed to find and contact Rodriguez, which led to an unexpected revival of his musical career.

This was told in the Academy Award-winning documentary film Searching for Sugar Man and helped give Rodriguez a measure of fame