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Continue Reading. You may like. Don't Miss. Searching for Sugar Man , however, changed everything, bringing Rodriguez to a previously unfathomable level of success. He soon graduated to the seat Highline Ballroom , and his shows at Town Hall 1, seats , the Beacon Theater 2, seats and Radio City Music Hall 6, seats all sold out in minutes. He has over 30 shows across the world on the books right now, including Coachella and Glastonbury in England.

We have to strike while the iron is hot. The money, I must say, is obscene. Rodriguez has lived in the same modest Detroit house for over 40 years. He has no car, computer or even a television.

His daughter Regan forced him to get a cellphone a few years ago because she grew weary of driving around the neighborhood trying to track him down. Once you get down to that level, everything else is icing. He plans on giving much of his money to his three daughters and some old friends. He nearly went to Vietnam. Despite being a pacifist, Rodriguez contemplated signing up for the army at the height of the Vietnam War.

I love my country. He released a single in under the name Rod Riguez. Steve M. Malik Bendjelloul. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. In the early s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well received but non-selling albums. Unknown to Rodriguez, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations.

Long rumored there to be dead by suicide, a few fans in the s decided to seek out the truth of their hero's fate. What follows is a bizarrely heartening story in which they found far more in their quest than they ever hoped, while a Detroit construction laborer discovered that his lost artistic dreams came true after all. He was a star in the making, who vanished without a trace. But on the other side of the world, he inspired a generation.

Rated PG for brief strong language and some drug references. Did you know Edit. Trivia Some parts of the documentary were shot on an iPhone App called 8mm Vintage Camera after the producers ran out of film for an expensive real 8mm camera. Director Malik Bendjelloul was cash strapped from making the documentary.

All rights reserved. Rodriguez performs during the Saquatch! The Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" helped launch a brand-new career for its subject, Sixto Rodriguez, 71, who went from obscurity in his native U. Since the film opened, Rodriguez's two albums -- his debut, "Cold Fact," and 's "Coming From Reality" -- have sold , and , copies, respectively. Not all has been rosy, though.