Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, 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 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 ...

Sixto Rodriguez at the premiere of "Searching for Sugar Man" in Los Angeles on June 19, 2012. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images) Sixto Rodriguez, the singer-songwriter who found fame as the subject of the ...

Aug 9 (Reuters) - 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 ...

CORRECTS NAME OF DOCUMENTARY TO SUGAR MAN, NOT SUGARMAN - FILE - Singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez performs at the Beacon Theatre on April 7, 2013, in New York. Rodriguez, who became the subject of ...

DETROIT -- Singer and songwriter Sixto Rodriguez, who became the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man," has died. He was 81. Rodriguez' death Tuesday in Detroit was ...

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. The musician’s ...

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