TY  - ADVS
AU  - DENNIS COFFEY
AU  - "SUGERMAN" SEGERMAN
TI  - SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN
PY  - 2012///
KW  - DOCUMENTARY
N1  - Rated PG13
N2  - Rated PG13 (2012) 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
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