In the summer of 1972, during a compulsory stint in the South African military,
Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman heard the music that would forever change his life. A d
ecade later, on yet another military base, Craig Bartholomew Strydom heard the s
ame music. It would have a profound effect.
Who was this folk singer who reso
nated with South Africa's youth? No one could say. All that anyone knew was his
name - Rodriguez - and the fact that he had killed himself on stage after readin
g his own epitaph. After many years of searching in a pre-internet age, Strydom
with support from Segerman found the musician not dead but alive and living in s
eclusion in Detroit.
