Sixto Rodriguez at the premiere of "Searching for Sugar Man" in Los Angeles on June 19, 2012. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images) Sixto Rodriguez, the singer-songwriter who found fame as the subject of the ...

DETROIT — Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, the Detroit musician who rose to international fame as the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary “Searching for Sugar Man,” died Tuesday. He was 81. Known ...

Sixto Rodriguez was a rock star who didn't even know it for years. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SUGAR MAN") SIXTO RODRIGUEZ: (Singing) Sugar man. SIMON: Released two albums in the early 1970s. They went ...

Fans have been celebrating the life of lifelong Detroiter and mysterious singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez with parties and music nights since his death in August. Another tribute event, a film ...

"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 ...