Rodriguez, the singer-songwriter whose improbable, stranger-than-fiction career was surveyed in the Oscar-winning 2012 documentary “Searching For Sugar Man,” died on August 9. He was 81. The ...

Sixto Rodriguez, the American musician known professionally as Rodriguez and the subject of 2012’s Searching for Sugar Man, has died. He was 81. His death was announced yesterday (Aug. 8) on his ...

The singer-songwriter found success later in his career and was the subject of the 2012 documentary Searching for Sugar Man, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Rodriguez, the the folk and rock singer who slipped into obscurity until the 2012 Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" gave his career an almost mythical second wind, has died.

Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, the Detroit, Michigan, singer-songwriter whose unusual rise to fame was documented in the Oscar-winning documentary “Searching for Sugar Man,” has died. He was 81.

Entertainment ‘Sugar Man’ singer Rodriguez dies at 81. Rodriguez — the subject of Oscar-winning documentary “Searching for Sugar Man”– passed away on Tuesday.

Rodriguez, ‘Sugar Man’ singer with an aura of mystery, dies at 81. The Detroit musician’s folk rock anthems made him an unwitting folk hero in apartheid-era South Africa.

Rodriguez’s music career flamed out early in the U.S., but it took off after the singer and songwriter became the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man.

‘Sugar Man’ singer, with an aura of mystery, was more interested in making up for lost time than pursuing lost royalties. Story by The Washington Post • 10mo. By Harrison Smith.

Tributes have poured in for Sixto Rodriguez – the cult singer-songwriter who, for years of his career, had a huge following in South Africa and beyond without even knowing it.

Revered Detroit musician Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, whose extraordinary journey from obscurity to international acclaim became the heart of the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man, has ...

Sixto Rodriguez, an American singer-songwriter whose outsized popularity in South Africa inspired the Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man," passed away on Tuesday at the age of 81 ...