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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

Sixto Rodriguez

Sixto Rodriguez performs at Lincoln Hall in Chicago, in September 2012 (Barry Brecheisen/Invision/AP)
August 9, 2023, 7:07 pm
Sixto Rodriguez, musician who didn’t know he was ‘more popular than Elvis,’ dies at 81
Detroit singer-songwriter, a flop in the US but (unbeknown to him) a huge star in South Africa, was ‘discovered’ and then immortalized in Oscar-winning ‘Searching for Sugar Man’
By Corey Williams
Sixto Rodriguez (right) in concert at the sixth&i synagogue, Washington, DC, March 3, 2018 (ToI staff)
March 4, 2018, 2:51 pm
Down the street from AIPAC, ‘Sugar Man’ Rodriguez plays a shul, muses over Trump
Seated in front of the Ten Commandments, wearing goggles and a white straw hat, a reborn protest singer has them swaying and clapping beneath the stained glass windows
By David Horovitz
Malik Bendjelloul at the 2013 Writers Guild Awards, JW Marriott, Los Angeles, CA. (Photo credit: Malik Bendjelloul image via Shuttershock.)
May 14, 2014, 4:18 am
‘Searching for Sugar Man’ director dies at 36 
No foul play suspected in death of Malik Bendjelloul, who won 2013 Oscar for film on American singer Sixto Rodriguez
By AP
Sixto Rodriguez performs at Lincoln Hall in Chicago, in September 2012 (Barry Brecheisen/Invision/AP)
March 28, 2013, 2:19 pm
In the second coming of Rodriguez, a Passover parable
Stephen Segerman, the Cape Town record store owner who led the hunt for a lost singer-songwriter, tells ToI the story behind the Oscar-winning documentary ‘Searching for Sugar Man’
By David Horovitz
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