Smoke filled the air, obscuring any clear view of him, but as his soft voice spread through the room with a style and sound comparable to that of Bob Dylan, Coffey and Theodore knew they struck gold. With jet-black hair and black sunglasses, they came to know this shadow of a man as Sixto Rodriguez, a Mexican-American artist and lyrical genius who would surely become the next best hit or so they thought.
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Jesús Sixto Paz Rodríguez, better known simply as Rodríguez, was an American musician of Mexican origin who was embraced by bad fortune and who, over the years and thanks to