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Latino rocker’s journey is stranger than fiction

by El Tecolote Staff July 9, 2012July 9, 2012

South African filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul’s new film, “Searching For Sugar Man,” explores the transformative journey of Mexican-American psychedelic folk-rocker Sixto Rodriguez—from a much-hyped musical flop as “the Dylan of Detroit,” to an anti-apartheid hero and venue-packing rock-legend in Bendjelloul’s homeland.

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