Sixto Rodriguez dead at 81 😥
Musician gained late-career fame after music smuggled into South Africa
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/sixto-rodriguez-1.6931354
* star/subject: Searching for Sugarman (good movie 👍️)
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=searching+for+sugarman
https://thepiratebay0.org/search/Searching%20For%20Sugar%20Man%20/1/99/0
Sixto Rodriguez: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixto_Rodriguez
* career initially met with little fanfare in U.S,
* unbeknownst to him: for decades his music extremely successful/influential in South Africa, where he sold more records than Elvis Presley
#SixtoRodriguez #SouthAfrica #Sugarman
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