Searching for Sugar Man
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Actor: Rodriguez, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman, Dennis Coffey
Director: Malik Bendjelloul
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86
Quality: HD
Release: 2012
IMDb: 8.2
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career with only two well received but non-selling albums. Unknown to Rodriguez, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon and inspiration for generations. Long rumored there to be dead by suicide, a few fans in the 1990s decided to seek out the truth of their hero's fate. What follows is a bizarrely heartening story in which they found far more in their quest than they ever hoped, while a Detroit construction laborer discovered that his lost artistic dreams came true after all. âKenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
