Searching For Sugarman

Searching for sugar man tells the incredible true story of rodriguez the greatest 70s rock icon who never was.

Searching for sugarman. Searching for sugar man 2012 pg 13 1h 26m documentaries decades after detroit singer songwriter rodriguez disappeared following the commercial failure of his albums two fans try to track down their idol. Sony pictures classics presents searching for sugar man directed by malik bandjellou. Two south africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero the mysterious 1970s rock n roller rodriguez. In 1997 stephen sugar segerman set up a website called the great rodriguez hunt with the intention of finding any information about the mysterious us musician of cold fact fame.

Searching for sugar man is a 2012 swedish british finnish documentary film about a south african cultural phenomenon directed and written by malik bendjelloul which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two cape town fans stephen sugar segerman and craig bartholomew strydom to find out whether the rumoured death of american musician sixto rodriguez was true and if not to discover what had become of him. After being discovered in a detroit bar rodriguez s sound struck 2 renowned producers and they signed a recording deal. But when the album bombed the singer disappeared into obscurity. With rodriguez stephen sugar segerman dennis coffey mike theodore.