Rodriguez; The Man - The Music Live At Riverside
Sat Nov 2, 20:00 - Sat Nov 2, 22:00
Riverside Retirement Village
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Our show Rodriguez, The Man - The Music
Rodriguez changed the lives of a lot of kids in the 70s. Cold Fact was the go-to album for some comfort and escape in the tumultuous and heavily authoritarian place that was South Africa at the time. He sold more records here than Elvis. He was bigger than the Rolling Stones, whereas back home in Detroit he was barely known. His story was documented in Searching For Sugarman, a movie put together by South Africans Stephen ‘Sugar’ Segerman and Craig Bartholemew (directed by the late Malik Bendjelloul) which won a BAFTA award for best documentary. He performed more than 30 times in South Africa between 1998 and the pandemic's beginning in 2020.
Paying tribute to him tonight are 3 different acts from Cape Town South Africa, each of whom gives their take on how his music influenced them.
They are James Kibby, Roy Kassel, and the duo Flip Squad.