Country:Sweden, 86 minutes
Spoken languages:English
Genres:Documentary, Biography, Music
Director(s):Malik Bendjelloul
Writer(s):
Video Codec:MPEG-2 (DVD)
Number: 875
Certification:PG-13
Storyline:
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.
Cast:
Clarence Avant (as Himself - Former Chairman of Motown Records), Rodriguez (as Himself), Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman (as Himself - Record Shop Owner), Dennis Coffey (as Himself - Co-Producer, Cold Fact 1970), Mike Theodore (as Himself - Co-Producer, Cold Fact 1970)
Medium: Digital Copy,
Comments: tv
Loaned: No
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1