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(Bottom row, from left) Pavement: Mark Ibold, Steve West, Scott Kannberg, Bob Nastanovich, Stephen Malkmus; (Top row, from ...

Sixto Diaz Rodriguez (born 1942), who virtually no one ever heard of in the US, unknowingly achieved platinum album status (by the UK standard) in faraway South Africa. Although a documentary ...

The American singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriguez went from oblivion to a career renaissance after his music developed a cult following in South Africa. He passed away on Tuesday at the age of 81.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "SUGAR MAN") SIXTO RODRIGUEZ: (Singing) Sugar man. SIMON: Released two albums in the early 1970s. They went nowhere in America. But in South Africa, he became a megastar.

SIMON: But while Sixto Rodriguez faded into obscurity here, his music lived on in South Africa. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "THE ESTABLISHMENT BLUES") RODRIGUEZ: (Singing) The mayor hides the crime rates ...