# @thefader on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CvuoBuZMEgz
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/8199315-thefader-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/f265f7e018.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-08-09T15:15:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

## Caption

Sixto Rodriguez, the Detroit-born folk musician who would go on to become a phenomenon in South Africa and the subject of the documentary Searching for Sugar Man, has died, at the age of 81.⁠
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Rodriguez put out his best-known releases — Cold Fact and Coming From Reality — under a mononym in the early 1970s. They sold poorly in the US, but found a massive following in Oceania and especially South Africa, where his songs became revolutionary anthems for the Apartheid era.⁠
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Read our tribute at the link in bio.⁠
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📸 Matt Roberts via Getty Images⁠
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#Rodriguez

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