Sugar man
the life, death and resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez
by Craig Bartholomew-Strydom
In the summer of 1972, during a compulsory stint in the South African military, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman heard the music that would forever change his life. A decade later, on yet another military base, Craig Bartholomew Strydom heard the same music. It would have a profound effect. Who was this folk singer who resonated with South Africa's youth? No one could say. All that anyone knew was his name - Rodriguez - and the fact that he had killed himself on stage after reading his own epitaph. After many years of searching in a pre-internet age, Strydom with support from Segerman found the musician not dead but alive and living in seclusion in Detroit. Even more remarkable was the fact that Rodriguez, no longer working as a musician and struggling to eke out a blue-collar existence, had no idea that he had been famous for over 25 years in a remote part of the world ...
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Sugar man: the life, death and resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez
2015, Bantam Press, an imprint of Transworld Publishers
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0593075463 9780593075463
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Sugar man: the life, death and resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez
2015, Penguin books
in English
1770228144 9781770228146
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 362-363) and index.
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