1) Sixto Diaz Rodrig… Read Full Bio ↴At least five artists share the name Rodriguez.
1) Sixto Diaz Rodriguez (also known as Rodriguez or as Jesus Rodriguez) (born in Detroit, MI, on 10 July 1942; died 8 August 2023) was an American folk singer-songwriter. He was named 'Sixto' (pronounced seex-toe) because he was the sixth child in his family. Rodriguez's parents were middle-class immigrants from Mexico, who left in the 1920s. In most of his songs he takes a political stance on the cruelties facing the inner city poor.
In 1967 (under the name Rod Riguez) he released the single "I'll Slip Away" through the small label Impact. He did not produce anything for another three years until he was signed to Sussex Records; an offshoot of the Buddah label. It was after the move to Sussex that he changed his professional name to just Rodriguez. Rodriguez recorded two albums with Sussex—Cold Fact in 1970, and Coming from Reality in 1971. But after mixed reviews and low album sales he was dropped from the label, which later folded in 1975.
After failing to make an impact in America, he gave up his career as a musician. However, although he was relatively unknown in his home country by the mid 70s, his albums were starting to gain airplay in countries like South Africa, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), New Zealand and Australia.
After imported copies of his Sussex albums ran dry, an Australian record label, Blue Goose Music, bought the Australian rights to his back catalogue in the mid 70s. The label released his two studio albums plus a compilation album At His Best (featuring unreleased recordings from 1976 "Can't Get Away", "I'll Slip Away" (a re-recording of his first single), and "Street Boy"). Unbeknownst to Rodriguez, it went platinum in South Africa, where he achieved cult status.
With a new buzz around Rodriguez, in 1979 he toured Australia with the Mark Gillespie Band as support. Two shows from the tour were later released on the Australian only album Alive—the title being a play on the rumors caused by his public obscurity that Rodriguez had died years ago. After the '79 tour he returned to Australia for a final tour in 1981 with Midnight Oil before quietly slipping back into normal life.
The 2012 Sundance Film Festival hosted the premiere of Searching for Sugar Man, from Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul, detailing the efforts by two fans to see if his rumored death was true - and if not, to discover what had become of him. The Simon Chinn and John Battsek produced documentary went on to win the World Cinema Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award, World Cinema Documentary. The film opens in NY and LA on July 27, 2012.
2) Rodriguez was a band which originated in San Luis Obispo, California. Formed in 1991 by bassist/vocalist Kyle Field (aka Little Wings) and guitarist/vocalist Matt Ward (aka M. Ward), drummer Mike Funk joined in 1993. Their only album to date, Swing Like A Metronome, released in 2000, was recorded by Grandaddy's Jason Lytle and featured songs written between 1992 and 1997. After Rodriguez disbanded, both songwriters went on to illustrious solo careers.
3) Rodriguez is a Garage Punk-Rock Band from Austria. More info at http://www.rodriguez.at
4) Rodriguez is a Swedish indie-electronica artist that released 2 EPs during the late 1990's and the early 2000's. He makes minimalistic instrumental tunes like Karate-dö, Kungen, Fred på jorden and Dominguez och Fernanduez.
5) Rodriguez is Pop - Techno Band fromGeorgia.
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Levan SvaniSvili - ლევან სვანიშვილი
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Sugar Man
Rodriguez Lyrics
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'Cause I'm tired of these scenes
For a blue coin, won't you bring back
All those colors to my dreams?
Silver magic ships you carry
Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane
On a lonely dusty road
Lost my heart when I found it
It had turned to dead black coal
Silver magic ships you carry
Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane
Sugar man, you're the answer
That makes my questions disappear
Sugar man, 'cause I'm weary
Of those double games I hear
Sugar man, sugar man, sugar man, sugar man
Sugar man, sugar man, sugar man
Sugar man, won't you hurry?
'Cause I'm tired of these scenes
For a blue coin, won't you bring back
All those colors to my dreams?
Silver magic ships you carry
Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane
Sugar man met a false friend
On a lonely dusty road
Lost my heart when I found it
It had turned to dead black coal
Silver magic ships you carry
Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane
Sugar man, you're the answer
That makes my questions disappear
The lyrics of "Sugar Man" by Rodriguez suggest a longing for escape from a monochromatic existence into a world of vivid colors and magic. The song begins with an appeal to the titular "Sugar Man" to hurry and bring back the colors to the singer's dreams. The lyrics hint at a world of mind-altering substances such as "sweet Mary Jane" - a colloquial name for marijuana - that have the power to transform the mundane into the magical. The song's tone turns melancholic in the second verse as the singer laments a false friend who has broken their heart, the pain of which has turned their heart to "dead black coal."Despite this disillusionment, the Sugar Man is still held up as the answer that makes the singer's questions disappear.
Overall, the lyrics of "Sugar Man" paint a picture of a world colored by the substances that the Sugar Man provides, and the promise of escape from the difficulties of reality that this escape can provide.
Line by Line Meaning
Sugar man, won't you hurry
Asking the Sugar man to hurry up, because the singer is tired of the dull and mundane scenes that they are trapped in.
Cause I'm tired of these scenes
The singer is expressing their exhaustion towards the situation that they are in.
For a blue coin won't you bring back
The singer is offering the Sugar man a blue coin to retrieve all the magical colors that have vanished from their dreams.
All those colors to my dreams
The artist is asking the Sugar man to bring back all the lively colors that are missing in their dreams.
Silver magic ships you carry
The Sugar man is being described as the bearer of silver magic ships.
Jumpers, coke, sweet Mary Jane
The Sugar man is carrying a range of substances like Jumpers, coke, and sweet Mary Jane.
Sugar man met a false friend
The Sugar man met a deceitful friend while traveling on a lonely and dusty road.
On a lonely dusty road
The false friend ended up tricking Sugar man on a deserted and isolated road.
Lost my heart when i found it
The artist had lost their heart or passion for something they once loved, and found it in a lifeless and unexciting state.
It had turned to dead black coal
The passion that the artist had lost was now a worthless, dead black coal.
Sugar man you're the answer
The singer perceives Sugar man as the solution and answer to their problems.
That makes my questions disappear
The artist's questions and doubts are believed to disappear or diminish by the presence of Sugar man in their life.
Sugar man cause I'm weary
The singer is stating that they are tired, implying that Sugar man should help ease their exhaustion.
Of those double games l hear
The singer has grown tired of the deception and dishonesty around them.
Sugar man
The singer is calling out to the Sugar man.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: Sixto Diaz Rodriguez
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@BrianCarnevaleB26
Rodriguez, the child of Mexican immigrant parents, recorded two acclaimed albums, 1970’s Cold Fact and 1971’s Coming From Reality, featuring music existing at the four-corner intersection of folk, soul, funk, and acid rock. After both albums sold poorly, he wound up leaving the music industry, focusing rather on blue-collar work in demolition and auto production.
Meanwhile, during his dormancy, Rodriguez’s music had found a big following in such countries as South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. His popularity overseas, where he’d see his songs transform into anti-apartheid protest hymns inside the sowetos of Johannesburg, transformed him into a global star almost overnight. With premature rumors of his death prevalent, Sixto emerged from retirement to embark on a successful tour of South Africa in 1998.
He would eventually find success here in the States when Seattle archival imprint Light in the Attic re-released both Cold Fact and Coming From Reality in 2008 and 2009. Searching for Sugar Man, meanwhile, was a genuine labor of love for its director, Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul, who quit his job and financed production himself in order to get the doc made. Bendjelloul would pass away in 2014 by suicide a year after winning the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
Beneath the announcement of Rodriguez’s death on the official Sugarman website are the words “Maybe today, I’ll slip away…,” lyrics are taken from a bonus track featured on the 2009 edition of Coming to Reality called “I’ll Slip Away.” While his physical vessel might be gone, chances are slim that the memory of this beloved cult hero will ever be forgotten.
RIP!
@thevibeguide
Rest in peace Sixto! ❤️
@Edwin-pq6dg
He's become immortal in south Africa .
@colombecolombe8869
Un génie a l âme si belle
Merci à L Afrique du Sud de lui avoir donné la gloire qu il meritait❤
@tyn_joueurswitch1505
Toujours un étrange sentiment qui s’échappe de cette musique..
@nuffzed2001
Also Malik bendjelloul 😢
Director of the film searching for sugar man
@MrJucun
@@nuffzed2001 Well, Malik passed away but about 9 years ago. Maybe they have seen each other again...?
@Purplefishish
I am 61, grew up in apartheid South Africa, and his album was my anthem, my inspiration, my constant companion. He inspired me to break free from conformity and go against the tide. I owe him so much. When I saw the film and realised he was alive, I had to see him live. I was so lucky to see him in Denmark and I cried from the moment he walked onto the stage. It is not often you get to see your hero come back from the dead. Thank you for everything Mr. Sixto Rodriguez
@robertnewell9238
This is wonderful! Very moving.
@blenzus8059
Truly inspiring !
@jacquelinemiller5823
Also was born and grew up in South Africa and oh the memories of his songs never forgotten