Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez

In the summer of 1972, during a compulsory stint in the South African military, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman heard music that would profoundly alter his life. A decade later, on yet another military base, Craig Bartholomew Strydom encountered the same music, which had an equally deep impact.

Who was this enigmatic folk singer who so resonated with South Africa's youth? No one seemed to know. All that was certain was his name – Rodriguez – and the widely circulated rumour that he had taken his own life on stage after reading his own epitaph. After years of searching in a pre-internet era, Strydom, with support from Segerman, eventually located the musician. He was not dead, but alive and living in seclusion in Detroit. Even more remarkably, Rodriguez, who had long since stopped working as a musician and was struggling to make a blue-collar living, had absolutely no idea that he had been famous for over twenty-five years in a remote part of the world.