Searching for Sugar Man

Searching for Sugar Man
  • Release date: 26 Jul 2012
  • Release year: 2012
  • Runtime: 86 minutes
  • Country: Sweden, United Kingdom, Finland
  • Keywords: songwriter, presumed dead, censorship, search, recording artist, comeback, singer, detroit michigan, urban legend, concert
Plot:
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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