The Story of Sixto Rodriguez: The Singer Who Came Back From The Dead

Cold Fact Also Took Over South Africa

When Sixto Rodriguez’s first album was released in 1969 was a bomb in the U.S., “maybe selling six records.” But in Austrailia and then South Africa, Rodriguez’s lyrics about overcoming hardship made him “more popular than Elvis Presley and bigger than the Rolling Stones.”

Cold Fact Also Took Over South Africa

Songs Used As Anti-Apartheid Anthems

Part of the reason his album was so successful in South Africa is that many of his songs served as anti-Apartheid anthems and were used in protests. How cool is that!

Songs Used As Anti Apartheid Anthems