Searching For Sugar Man
Keywords
- Award Winning
- based on a true story
- Creatives: Make Music!
- indie music
- Malte Wirtz
- pop culture
- Rapid Eye Movies
- rock
- underground
Actors
- Sixto Rodriguez
Director
- Malik Bendjelloul
Biography, Documentary
1h 26min
0 FSK
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Mexican-American singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez was discovered in a Detroit bar in the late '60s by two celebrated producers struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics. they recorded the album “Cold Fact” in 1970 which they believed would secure his reputation as the greatest recording artist of his generation. In fact, despite excellent reviews, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, he became a phenomenon.
Mexican-American singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez was discovered in a Detroit bar in the late '60s by two celebrated producers struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics. they recorded the album “Cold Fact” in 1970 which they believed would secure his reputation as the greatest recording artist of his generation. In fact, despite excellent reviews, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, he became a phenomenon.