Sixto Rodriguez

I have a sloppy style of playing guitar. A percussive style. Unique in fact.

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I learned that South Africa is a beautiful country with gorgeous people, and I got to see it from a different perspective than most people do.

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I like to say that I do covers of my own songs. And I have about a dozen bands all over the world. That's no exaggeration. I have a South African band, an Australian band, Swedish bands, English bands, American bands. They're all notable musicians, too.

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Where other people live in an artificial world, I feel I live in the real world. And nothing beats reality.

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You can't get around certain stuff, whether it's in Darfur or on your block at home. What makes us political is your home turf, your family, your life space. You walk down the street, and automatically a human being is territorial, and political happens in that.

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My family, we're indigenous people from San Luis Potosi in Central Mexico. My father moved to Detroit and brought all of us because the automobile companies were paying great wages.

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