Rodriguez performs in SA

Rodriguez performed at four sold out concerts at Carnival City's Big Top Arena at the weekend

 

The Mexican-American singer-songwriter known simply as, "Rodriguez" had been working on his music career in Detroit since the early 1960s.

 

He recorded an album in 1969 that many believed was going to secure his reputation as one of the greatest recording artists of his generation.

 

Instead, Cold Fact bombed and the Rodriguez seemingly disappeared into obscurity, even being subject to rumours that he had committed suicide by setting himself on fire onstage and other imaginative tales.

 

The album took on a life of its own when a bootleg recording found its way into our own South Africa. Banned by the Apartheid government, the album became a nationwide phenomenon over the next two decades, and the soundtrack to a resistance movement of liberal African youth.

 

Check out a clip of his performance the past weekend, right here:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Report by MornéJK