Story about Searching for Sugar Man / Psahnontas ton vasilia tis skonis / Sugar Man / 寻找小糖人
Two South African set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1...
Two South African set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock 'n' roller, Rodriguez.
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 inpiration for generation. Long rumored there to be dead by suicide, a few fan 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 contruction laborer discovered that his lost artistic dreams came true after all.