Is Searching For Sugar Man true story?

Is Searching For Sugar Man true story?

The quest to find Rodriguez and tell his story led to “Searching For Sugar Man,” which unfurled more like a detective story than a documentary. “This was the greatest, the most amazing, true story I'd ever heard, an almost archetypal fairy tale,” Bendjelloul told the New York Times in 2012. “It's a perfect story.

Does Sixto Rodriguez still perform?

Find out more about Rodriguez tour dates & tickets 2021-2022 Unfortunately there are no concert dates for Rodriguez scheduled in 2021.

Did Rodriguez set himself on fire?

One story said he had lit himself on fire during a concert… another that he had blown his head off with a gun, again, on stage. Pretty brutal – but these stories became accepted fact, because literally no one knew the truth. In the 90's, a reporter decided to try to find out what had actually happened to Rodriguez.

What is the movie Searching for Sugar Man About?

• Searching for Sugar Man. 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...

What awards has searching for Sugar Man won?

• Searching for Sugar Man won the Special Jury Prize and the Audience Award for best international documentary at the Sundance Film Festival.

What is searching for Sugar Man by Alex Rodriguez?

• Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 soundtrack album from the documentary containing a compilation of songs by Rodriguez from his two studio albums.

How much did searching for Sugar Man make at the box office?

• Searching for Sugar Man performed well during its theatrical release, earning $3,696,196 at the US box office (47th of all US docs on Box Office Mojo).