photo by Doug Seymour
Last night, August 8, 2023, Sixto Diaz Rodriguez died. His birthday was on July 10, 1942. He was 81 years old.
Rodriguez was "more popular than Elvis" in South Africa, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman said in 2013. The Cape Town record store owner's nickname comes from the Rodriguez song Sugarman.
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