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, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. Cover art of the 1970 album 'Cold Fact' by Rodriguez. Most jarring are ...

Thanks to a batch of South African bootlegs, a Mexican-American artist named Sixto Rodriguez became a platinum-selling star in that country without even knowing it—as recounted in the new documentary, ...

Local label Light in the Attic has done the world a service and rereleased two forgotten albums by Detroit artist Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, known simply as Rodriguez. “Cold Fact” came out in 1970, and ...

The history of recorded music is peopled with more losers than winners—ambitious artists who cut a record or two, sold little, and faded back into obscurity. But for Sixto Rodriguez, a Detroit-based ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. First released in 1970, this debut by Detroit native Sixto Diaz Rodriguez was ignored ...

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 ...

Who were the most important American songwriters after Woodstock? Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Rodriguez. Everyone knew that where I was growing up, among the malcontent teenagers of white suburbia in ...

“It is with great sadness that we at Sugarman.org announce that Sixto Diaz Rodriguez has passed away earlier today,” read the note. “We extend our most heartfelt condolences to his daughters – Sandra, ...