Searching for sugar man

• He has been called the greatest 70s rock star who never was. A Chicano Bob Dylan. More improbable, the 70-year-old street bard from Detroit is considered a founding father of South African progressive rock.
(Los Angeles Times)
• You know the theory - a butterfly flaps its wings in one place and it causes a storm in some distant land. Its a common plot device used in sci-fi and fantasy tales, but rarely do we see that sort of connection in real life, unless we look.
(Los Angeles Daily News)
• REVIEW: They said the less you know about this film, the better - and they were right.
(Stuff)
• If you've never heard of Rodriquez, the '60s folk singer-songwriter from Detroit, you are not alone. His albums "Cold Fact" (1969) and "Coming From Reality" (1971) were commercial failures, and he disappeared into obscurity.
(Examiner)
• IN the early Seventies, singer/songwriter Rodriguez Sixto was so far ahead of his time that his debut album Cold Fact bombed. Except in apartheid-era South Africa where his countercultural guitar-folk made him as feted as Dylan.
(express.co.uk)
• His voice had the sweetness of James Taylor, backed by some of Motown's finest session musicians, including British guitarist Chris Spedding. Steve Rowland produced some of his tracks, before going on to work with the Cure.
(scotsman.com)
• SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN tells the true story of the greatest 70s US rock icon who never was, how he was rediscovered in a far off land and finally became the legend he always deserved to be. It is a story of hope, inspiration and the power of music.
(Anchorage Daily News)
• The subject of spanking-new documentary Searching for Sugar Man, cult singer Sixto Diaz Rodriguez emerged from Detroit to become an unlikely superstar in South Africa. J.
(YAHOO!)