Rodriguez는 사이키델릭 록을 하는 음악인입니다. 기대를 걸고 발매한 2장의 음반이 실패하고서 음악을 관두고 노동일로 생계를 꾸려갑니다.

레코드사에서는 그가 Bob Dylan 만큼 유명해질 것이라고 기대 했었다고 합니다만...

실패한 그 2장의 음반이 불법 복제되어 남아공까지 흘러가는데... 억눌리고 폐쇄된 사회에 대한 탈출구 (특히, 반 아파르트 헤이트)로 그의 노래들이 큰 인기를 얻게 됩니다.
그의 팬들에게 그는 무대 위에서 권총으로 자살했다고 알려집니다.

그를 좀더 자세히 알고싶었던 팬클럽에서 그에 대한 정보를 수소문하기 위한 '웹사이트'를 개설합니다.
그런데 우연히 그의 딸이 이 웹사이트를 발견하고, 팬클럽에 전화를 합니다.
"우리 아빠는 멀쩡히 살아있는데... 죽었다니 이게 뭔가요?"
그래서 그는 '부활'해서 팬클럽의 주선으로 남아공에 가서 열렬한 환영을 받습니다.

그 '웹사이트'가 그누보드는 아니었겠지만... 어쩐지 기분이 좋네요.

이하 위키백과

Sixto Diaz Rodriguez, known professionally as Rodriguez (born July 10, 1942), is an American singer-songwriter from Detroit, Michigan. Though his career was initially met with little fanfare in the United States, he found success in Australia, touring the country twice, and New Zealand. Unbeknownst to him for decades, his music was also extremely successful and influential in South Africa, where he is believed to have sold more records than Elvis Presley., as well as other countries in Southern Africa. Information about him was scarce, and it was incorrectly rumored there that he had committed suicide shortly after releasing his second album.

In the 1990s, determined South African fans managed to find and contact Rodriguez, which led to an unexpected revival of his musical career. This was told in the 2012 Academy Award–winning documentary film Searching for Sugar Man and helped give Rodriguez a measure of fame in his home country. In May 2013, Rodriguez received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from his alma mater, Wayne State University, in Detroit.

Rodriguez has been living in Detroit's historic Woodbridge neighborhood, through which he is seen walking in Searching for Sugar Man. He is known to live a simple life, possessing no telephone or cell phone of his own, and occasionally visiting bars in the Cass Corridor section of Detroit near Woodbridge and Midtown Detroit, such as the Old Miami pub, where he has performed live concerts for small local crowds.