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Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, also known as Rodríguez or Jesús Rodríguez (born July 10, 1942), is an American folk musician from Detroit, Michigan. His career initially proved short lived, with two little-sold albums in the early 1970s and two Australian concert tours. Although retaining a loyal following in Australia, unknown to Rodriguez his albums became extremely successful and influential in South Africa. According to the film-makers of the documentary about him, ''Searching for Sugar Man'', sales of his records outnumbered those of Elvis Presley in South Africa. He was rumored there to have committed suicide. In the 1990s, determined South African fans managed to find and contact Rodriguez, which led to an unexpected revival of his musical career. This is told in the 2012 Academy Award–winning documentary film ''Searching for Sugar Man'', which helped give Rodriguez a measure of fame in his home country. On May 9, 2013, Rodriguez received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from his alma mater, Wayne State University (WSU), in Detroit. Rodriguez lives in Detroit's historic Woodbridge neighborhood, through which he is seen walking in ''Searching for Sugar Man''. == Early life == Rodriguez was born in 1942 in Detroit, Michigan. He was the seventh child of working-class parents. He was named Sixto (pronounced "Seeks-toe") because he was their sixth son. His father had immigrated to the United States from Mexico in the 1920s; his mother was also from Mexico. They had joined a large wave of Mexicans who came to the midwest to work in Detroit's industries.〔Vargas, Zaragosa. Proletarians of the North: A History of Mexican Industrial Workers in Detroit, 1917-1933. University of California Press, 1999.〕 Mexican immigrants at that time faced both intense alienation and marginalization.〔Vargas, Zaragosa. http://oregonstate.edu/dept/humanities/mexican-americans-caught-50s-039witch-hunt039〕〔Balderrama, Francisco. A Decade of Betrayal: Mexican Repatriation in the 1930s. Albuquerque, NM.: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.〕 In most of his songs, Rodriguez takes a political stance on the difficulties that faced the inner city poor. Despite his poor background, Rodriguez earned a Bachelor of Philosophy from Wayne State University's Monteith College in 1981.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wayne State University )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sixto Rodriguez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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