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MONTREUX, Switzerland (REUTERS) - American singer-songwriter Sixto "Sugar Man" Rodriguez, virtually unknown a few years ago, opened the Montreux Jazz Festival on Thursday, which American producer and its former co-director Quincy Jones calls the "Rolls Royce of music festivals."
Fresh from the Glastonbury festival in Britain last weekend, Rodriguez gave a Fourth of July concert in the Swiss resort, mixing songs from his two albums that never made the charts with borrowed tunes including the classic rock'n'roll hit Fever.
The Detroit-based singer, whose lyrics evoke the folksy sound of Bob Dylan, is the shy subject of Searching For Sugar Man, a film by Swedish director Malik Bendjelloul that tells the incredible story of his fame late in life. It won the Oscar for best documentary this year.
Read more: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/lifestyle/story/sugar-man-rodriguez-opens-montreux-jazz-festival-20130705
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