I saw "Searching For Sugarman" a few weeks ago, having never heard of Rodriguez before being invited to see the movie with a friend - if only I had discovered him as a teenager! What a sadness that his music never proliferated in the US before now. And amazing how his music was truly the heartbeat of a generation of South Africans, much as Dylan was in the US, without anyone the wiser - for 40 years. Finally the entire world can hear this remarkable, overlooked talent. Thank you, Rodriguez!

The greatest story in rock n roll history ever

I'm from China. I spend four years in Minneapolis, northern American city just as Rodriguez from. I love his voice, lyrics and the northern American vibe. Just watched the movie Searching for Sugarman, again, love his music.

Such a humble soul. He totally deserves recognition

What an incredible destiny that this man so talented and finally recognised at it’s fair value. . A great movie about a genious... thank Sixto to exist while the people for the most had already burried you

I discovered Mr. Rodriguez on december 2016, he is really great, I can't stop listening his songs.

I love you! Thanks for your story, thanks for your music! from Slovakia

i cant believe i watched this man rome the streets of that troubled city for years....Detroit! Sowthest Detroit to be exact. Much respect.

Really nice!!!! What a voice! Intact, crisp, beautiful. And the lyrics? Still strong, and timeless. We've been deprived of a great musician. Had the US music industry, and the media, not ignored him, he would have been a tough competition to Dylan. Alas, it happens to so many. I'm glad someone thought of, and found Rodriguez. Beats a lot of junk music out there.

Always a joy to discover new music, and this music has a timeless, mystical, prophetic air to it that honestly puts everything coming out these days from the record companies to shame. And these songs are thirty years old. Thank you Rodriguez for some honest, moving songcraft.

I saw the documentary about Sixto's life and career on tv and I was blown away. A great musician and song writer.

This is a great man and wonderful musician..he deserves respect for many things.

Rodriguez is like no other. His incredible sound lyrics. He is brilliant. His music sounds like a photograph looks.

Wow this is amazing! To the hell with the music industry. So much "swill on the radio" and so much great music" not on the radio." You are a music genius and the lyrics Wow. Better then Dylan. Salud and thank you

Dedicated to my beloved Chicago. Moved a couple months ago, and this was on repeat all the way out. Makes me think of there, and it was fitting here and there both.

Rest In Peace, Rodriguez🕊️

Incredible story and a great musicien and man !!!!

Sixto Rodriguez é feito do mesmo material que são forjadas as lendas, meu respeito e admiração por este grande artista ultrapassa qualquer marca, sonho um dia ver ele tocando ao vivo, Rodriguez, Rodriguez, Rodriguez!!!

Thanks for all the people that rescue to Rodríguez and do posible enjoy his music..

Timeless tunes....16yr olds hit the thumb down button...a change will come once they've lived a little.

Legend!!!

Greetings from the Russian city of Moscow. We love the performances Rodriguez. Come with a concert in Moscow. Thank you.

I'm one of those who recently discovered him. Amazing music, crazy story. Hopefully he will get the recognition(here in the U.S) that he always deserved now.

I saw him live twice in 2015, he didn't have a band though...hope to see him at least once with one. he's amazing.

I saw him live twice in 2015 but he didn't have a band...really makes me wish I could of seen him with one. Awesome stuff here

I missed having him in my lifes sound track just because I didn't know! he is a great song writer

One of the best artist much respect

What a story!

cool music, thank u Malik for discover this treasure!! R.I.P. Malik Bendjelloul

RIP Sixto Rodriguez 💚

BEAUTIFULL

Love his words hope to see him in concert. Love him

I feel so privileged to have been introduced to Rodriguez's music! There are AT LEAST 4 songs from his first album that I can't get out of my head. And timeless too...I get sort of sad inside though when I think of the pure genuine character that he is and was taken advantage of and never told how famous he had become in SA. I'm thankful for at least being able to listen to his music now.

Does anybody think that possibly by now, this great man would still be alive if he had become "famous" rock and roll style? Such a shy and unassuming person as Rodriguez is, it's probably a blessing He never rose to fame and fortune, He would have hated it. Watching this and hoping for true happiness for Rodriguez is all I want. The man has done it. Take a bow Mr. Rodriguez. Live a long and fruitfull life with your family and freinds....You deserve it.

AMAIZING at 70 he is occupying the space of a youngs man world singing rock and blues with profound impact on music that despite his music was written many years ago, now is coming to light to mesmerize the music world

Woooooooooooooooow! Way back in the 70's when I was a 'journeyman' Singer/Musician in South Africa I was introduced to the songs of this INCREDIBLE Man/Artist & I'm so bowled over to have rediscovered HIM here again on uTube...YES YES YES indeed he should be up 'there' with the 'other' giants...in these every changing times we all live in his lyrics ring TRUE...Thank You for posting these 'clips' of this TRUE Genius...

The guy rocks thanks for the doco hindsight is a great thing I get it now

We had a dream in the 60’s, we wanted to change the world in a more just place for everybody…create a better society, then drugs start sipping into our minds…our dreams got distorted and then we became a caricature of marketing, Sixto, (named because he was child #6) Rodriguez survived untouched, that’s why he still relevant today as he was in the 60’s and 70’s…Young societies, less affected by drugs, made him and he still a LEGEND…still our original voice….Thanks Rod.!!!

he is just so bloody talented, just love him STILL lol

great music great horns great pants

Muy interesante...gracias! 💙❤💙❤💙❤💙❤💙❤

after some years of life.. he is so right on!

gran talento🎶🎶🎤

Um dos mais brilhantes da história!

For the love of Sixto! ❤

Gracias Sixto. Te amo Sixto.

Well said. Thumbs up!

YES!!!

2014...we must have Rodriguez in Kennedy Center~!!!

The band is really good.

Excellent!

Me encanta

Respect

just love

Very nice!

You're going to love th film.

Born in Detroit, MI

thanks 60 Minutes!!!!!!1

Rodriguez is not about competing

i saw it 4 time

Born in a troubled city in Montréal, Canada :P

Same here!

So far only 2 people have 'disliked' it.. and does giving this a 'thumbs-down' even mean you dislike it? I think that true artists attract both saints and sinners and all in between. Indeed, people 'in-between' far outnumber the number of 'likes'. For this reason, I disagree with the second comment on this video.

dos universos paralelos se unieron

✌🏾🙏🏾🐜

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Corporate music producers, the military industrial complex, and old age. In reality, only one is inescapable

Who da hell marked dislike of this?

Born in a troubled city in Mexicali,Mexico

🙌🙌👑✨❤️‍🔥

He will be in Seattle April 25, 2013. go to surgarman website.

Born in troubled city in buenos aires, Argentina

yep

He has just rereleased his old albuns and a "Greatest Hits" one featured in the Documentary about his life. If you search on Wikipedia for Sixto Rodriguez you'll find the names of these albuns.

move over rappers this is the greatist music of all time

Yo también pensé en un asunto de universos paralelos

born in troubled city in Jakarta, Indonesia

He is a great man!!! go the change . org and type Sixto Rodriguez. We want to help him to be recognized.

So far 7 people lost their mind!

great song! good live version too, KEXP is the best. that keyboard player is a bit scary though.. ;)

well said mooglie

When is Sixto going to be present in Seattle. Does anybody knows.

Where is he now? I want to buy his music

✌SXTO✌🎸💕🎸🌟

Dahhh... 60 Minutes stole the shine from what really brought Rodriguez back into the spotlight. Go watch the documentary "Searching for Sugar Man"... A million times better than the 60 Minutes coverage

■ 𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗭: «𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗢𝗡𝗘 𝗔𝗚𝗘: 𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗢𝗥 𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗗» - 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁: Rodrìguez, how old are you? - 𝗥𝗼𝗱𝗿𝗶̀𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘇: You know,‘There’s only one age: alive or dead.’ - 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁: Many of the songs on Cold Fact and Coming From Reality deal explicitly with life in Detroit during the late 1960s and early ’70s. What was Detroit like during the time he was writing those songs? - 𝗥𝗼𝗱𝗿𝗶̀𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘇: The troubles in the city, the riots in Detroit, in ’67, those were the things, Let’s see, we had the Vietnam War, which is the backdrop, the students were burning their draft cards resisting the draft, that kind of thing. We had conscription. The students were moving to Canada, stuff like that. The protests were going on. All these things were happening. Detroit is an industrial city, post-industrial, they were in the thick of it. If you remember the slogans of that time, ‘If it’s good for General Motors, it’s good for the country’. “I remember, in 1964, three students went down south to help a vote of registration and they were killed in Mississippi. One of them was James Chaney and there was two more, I believe. There was another lady called Viola Liuzzo. She was a Detroit lady, a white lady from the suburbs, and she went down to help a vote of registration and she was killed in Alabama, in ’65. So Detroit has supplied some of these issues, from the northern cities to down South. They might be obscure people but there certainly were part of the 1970s, ’60s, Civil Rights movement. Civil Rights and women’s rights was championed at that time. So those kinds of things were at least fresh then. The kids were starting to have tie-dye shirts, writing on their T-shirts. Now it’s a big fad. But at that time, T-shirts were generally blank. Martin Luther King walked hands in hands with Walter Reuther, labour, the United Auto Workers, and priest and clergy, of course. But the thing is that labour Detroit has always been for the working people, so that’s what my orientation is.” ■ 𝗥𝗘𝗚𝗔𝗡 𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗭 (𝗗𝗔𝗨𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗘𝗥): «He lives a very Spartan life.” She continued, “I almost want to call it Amish. He once told me there’s three basic needs - food, clothing and shelter. Once you get down to that level, everything else is icing.» - 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁: So what will Sixo do with all his money? - 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗼𝗱𝗿𝗶̀𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘇: Well, he plans on giving it to his daughter and close friends. That’s his philosophy. He takes great pleasure in giving it away, especially to people that supported him when he wasn’t a big commercial success. I do really wish he’d spend some of the money on himself, though.” ■ 𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗨𝗘𝗭 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟱: «𝗜 ran for mayor twice, for state representative twice and for the city council three times,” Rodriguez confirms. “I describe myself as a musical political. I’m born and bred out of Detroit. Detroit is an interesting place. You’ve got to be from somewhere. I’m going to get back there for the Doctorate and I’m going to file to run for mayor. I can explain. To run for mayor, you need a minimum of 515 signatures of valid voters, up to 1,000, they won’t accept any more than that. So I’m going to file and see what happens. I’m petitioning now through other people, so when I get back there for those few days, I’m going to file for office and see what happens.»

What a discover, i can believe it, so much time wasted listening crapy music, this its real talent, it will last forever.

the horn arrangement is very 60'-70's...interesting

Human kind born from clean slate, journeys onto the unknown. Life gives him cold vistas. I now feel what black men felt in the hands of tyrants

Tours are funded and promoted by record labels when they deem an artist worthy based on their perception of commercial appeal. Was he supposed to fund his own tour using his construction labor wages? He played regularly in Detroit, where travel costs were not a consideration.

I BEEN THERE EVÉRY STEP OF THE WAY WITH YOU LOOKING FOR MY SUGAR MAN...... ORISHA ONYOU AUSTRALIA....MR RODRIGUEZ!!!!!!

Watch 60 last night 60 minutes and you will find out who he really is.

Age not weary him . am I right listener too ? Where did he go walk abouts .... Did he find a fountain of youth . Money could not pursway fame n that you .

No me gusta mucho 🤪😃