MONTREUX, Switzerland (Reuters) - American singer-songwriter Sixto "Sugar Man" Rodriguez, virtually unknown a few years ago, opened the Montreux Jazz Festival on Thursday, which American producer and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sixto Rodriguez was just another construction worker in 1970s Detroit. At least, that’s what his friends ...

Sixto Rodriguez, the musician and subject of the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, has died aged 81. The Detroit-born singer's official website confirmed he died on Tuesday. Rodriguez launched his ...

Who were the most important American songwriters after Woodstock? Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Rodriguez. Everyone knew that where I was growing up, among the malcontent teenagers of white suburbia in ...

Like many former musicians, Sixto Rodriguez finally succumbed to the frenzied madness of the music business in the early 1970s, gave up the journey and settled in Detroit for what could be described ...

(AP) Wayne State University had no idea that a folk hero was in its midst when the Detroit school awarded Sixto Rodriguez a philosophy degree in 1981. Then again, Rodriguez had no idea about his fame, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DETROIT (AP) — Sixto Rodriguez, who lived in ...