---
name: "Rodriguez"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rodriguez"
fi1m_id: "rodriguez"
imdb_id: "nm4582541"
tmdb_id: 1133582
wikidata_id: "Q1894125"
roles: ["Songs"]
born: "10 July 1942"
died: "8 August 2023"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-10T11:59:39.224798+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Rodriguez

## Identity

Rodriguez

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rodriguez
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rodriguez
- **IMDb ID:** nm4582541
- **TMDB ID:** 1133582
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1894125
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1894125, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4582541/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1133582

Songs. Born 10 July 1942 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Died 8 August 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Songs
- **Born:** 10 July 1942, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- **Died:** 8 August 2023
- **Also known as:** Sixto Rodriguez , Sixto Diaz Rodriguez
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1894125, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4582541/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1133582

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Searching for Sugar Man*](https://film.one/film/searching-for-sugar-man.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Rodriguez, also known as Sixto Rodriguez or Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, was an American singer-songwriter and composer. He was born on 10 July 1942 in Detroit, Michigan, and died on 8 August 2023.

He released two studio albums, *Cold Fact* (1970) and *Coming from Reality* (1971), which achieved little commercial success in the United States but gained a following in South Africa and Australia. His music featured on the soundtrack to the 2012 documentary *Searching for Sugar Man*, in which he appeared as himself, and on *The Gambler* (2014).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Searching for Sugar Man* (2012), Fi1m 74, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/searching-for-sugar-man.md)

## Also known for

- *The Gambler* (2014), Songs

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