Synopsis
Searching for Sugar Man (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. ??Kenneth Chisholm

Awards: 44 wins & 33 nominations total
Worldwide Gross: $9,216,552
Soundtrack: Sugar Man (Written by Rodriguez (as Sixto Rodriguez))


Malik Bendjelloul
Rodriguez, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman, Dennis Coffey
2012-07-26 (Sweden, United Kingdom, Finland)
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