Yesterday I found out a bad new. Malik Bendjelloul the director of the documentary called "Searching for sugar man" died in Sweden at 36 years old.
He won a Oscar last year with this beautiful documentary about Sixto Rodriguez, a mistery man who became a rock star in South Africa, but nobody knows nothing about his life. In South Africa he became bigger than Bob Dylan. Sixto was so important for South Africans that he was the soundtrack of the protests against apartheid in the 70's. However was impossible to they, find any information of Sixto in Internet. That was so strange thing, and the reason of Malik to looking for this man in a documentary.
The documentary told the story of two South Africans searching for their music hero, music hero completely lost. Some of the South african people thought that Sixto died in accident, others, that he kill him self, but finally they discover incredible truth. This magic film has the music of Rodriguez all the time is like a musical film about your own history . With Sugar man, the most beautiful of Sixto songs and the header of the documentary.
A big lost for the film world.
Sixto Rodriguez, the rock star of the apartheid.
