The song sunk without trace when it was released in the US, but won him a huge following among anti-establishment South Africans ...

Sixto Rodriguez was a rock star who didn't even know it for years. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SUGAR MAN") SIXTO RODRIGUEZ: (Singing) Sugar man. SIMON: Released two albums in the early 1970s. They went ...

IN 1979, SIXTO RODRIGUEZ was a construction worker in his home town of Detroit when he learned that "Cold Fact," the album he had released in 1970 with no success in the United States, had become a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sixto Rodriguez at the premiere of "Searching for Sugar Man" in Los Angeles on June 19, 2012. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images) Sixto ...

DETROIT — Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, the Detroit musician who rose to international fame as the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary “Searching for Sugar Man,” died Tuesday. He was 81. Known ...