Manchester United have less than a week to add to their squad this summer - but there is leeway in the global market for them to strike-up further business beyond deadline day.
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on his website Wednesday. His cause and location of death has not been revealed.“It is with great sadness that we at Sugarman.org announce that Sixto Diaz Rodriguez has passed away earlier today,” read the statement on his website.“We extend our most heartfelt condolences to his daughters — Sandra, Eva and Regan — and to all his family. Rodriguez was 81 years old.
May His Dear Soul Rest In Peace,” the statement continued.The Bob Dylan-inspired crooner, better known as Rodriguez, struggled to sell copies of his first two records “Cold Fact” and “Coming From Reality” in the 1970s and he supported himself by working on a Chrysler assembly line. Unbeknownst to him, his music was gaining cult-like popularity in South Africa, Botswana, Australia and New Zealand. In South Africa, his songs protesting the Vietnam War, as well as racial and gender inequality, became songs used to protest racial segregation during the country’s racist apartheid.His fans in South Africa assumed Rodriguez was popular in the US and thought he was already dead.
In 1997, Cape Town record store owner Stephen “Sugar” Segerman and a journalist named Carl Bartholomew-Strydom hunted the singer down in Detroit, where he was very much alive and working on construction sites. Also in 1997, Rodriguez’s daughter Eva found out about her dad’s fame online. His fame skyrocketed in 1998 after his song “Sugar Man” was covered by the South African rock band Just Jinger and the Scottish singer-songwriter Paolo Nutini.
Rapper Nas also sampled his song in 2001. In 2008, Rodriguez released his two albums and also went on tour. The 2012 documentary “Searching for Sugar Man” by Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul shined a light on the singer’s life and won the Oscar in
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official website shared the news, writing, «It is with great sadness that we at Sugarman.org announce that Sixto Diaz Rodriguez has passed away earlier today. We extend our most heartfelt condolences to his daughters – Sandra, Eva and Regan – and to all his family. Rodriguez was 81 years old.
Rodriguez, the singer-songwriter who gained renewed fame thanks to the documentary “Searching for Sugar Man”, has died at age 81.
the musician’s official blog and website announced his death. “It is with great sadness that we at Sugarman.org announce that Sixto Diaz Rodriguez has passed away earlier today,” it read.
Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, the Detroit singer-songwriter better known simply as Rodriguez whose seeming disappearance after a brief flirtation with musical success in the early 1970s was the subject of the Oscar-winning 2012 documentary Searching For Sugar Man, died today. He was 81.
Chris Morris Music ReporterRodriguez, the singer-songwriter whose improbable, stranger-than-fiction career was surveyed in the Oscar-winning 2012 documentary “Searching For Sugar Man,” died on August 9. He was 81.
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