Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez

Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez, the American musician who was famous in South Africa, but unknown anywhere else.
Strydom, Craig Bartholomew; Segerman, Stephen
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Title: Sugar Man
Subtitle: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez
Author: Craig Bartholomew Strydom; Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman
Genre: History
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Imprint: Penguin Books
Cape Town, South Africa 2015
ISBN 9781770228146 / ISBN 978-1-77-022814-6
Softcover, 15 x 23 cm, 285 pages, several colour photographs

About: Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez

Like many South Africans in the seventies and eighties, Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom were obsessed with the music of Sixto Rodriguez, but the man himself was a mystery. Only his name was known, and the fact that he had killed himself on stage. After years of searching in a pre-internet age, the two men found the singer living in seclusion in Detroit. Remarkably, the blue-collar worker had no idea that he had been famous for over twenty-five years in this remote pariah of the world. In 2006, Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul stumbled on this remarkable tale in the Guardian newspaper and tracked down Craig Bartholomew Strydom and Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman.

So began his four-year-long quest to make the Oscar-winning documentary, Searching for Sugar Man. It outlines three separate journeys and the obstacles and triumphs that each presented: Rodriguez’s struggle to make a life from music; the odyssey of two fans to find out what had happened to their hero; and Bendjelloul’s pursuit to bring the story to celluloid. Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez is packed with information not included in the film, about Rodriguez’s background, relationships and political activities, his tours to Australia, and the recognition that has finally come to him after the film’s success.

Craig Bartholomew Strydom is a freelance writer working in advertising. His work has been featured in the London International Awards, the New York Festivals and the One Show. His writing has appeared in Rolling Stone and Creative Nonfiction, and he was a Susan Atefat Creative Nonfiction Prize finalist in 2011.

Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman is a music writer and co-owner of the iconic record store, Mabu Vinyl. He is also a former quiz kid. Both Strydom and Segerman live in Cape Town.

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