Sixto Diaz Rodriguez’s wife will definitely be in pain wherever she is currently as her husband has been confirmed dead. Sixto Diaz Rodriguez was an American singer-songwriter from Detroit, Michigan.
He was born on July 10, 1942, in Detroit, Michigan as the sixth child of Mexican immigrant working-class parents.
He was named Sixto because he was their sixth son. His father had emigrated to the United States from Mexico in the 1920s; his mother was Native American.
They had joined a large influx of Mexicans who came to the Midwest to work in Detroit’s industries.
Mexican immigrants at that time faced both intense alienation and marginalisation.
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In 1967, using the name “Rod Riguez” (given by his record label), he released a single, “I’ll Slip Away”, on the small Impact label. He did not record again for three years until he signed with Sussex Records, an offshoot of Buddah Records.
He used his preferred professional name, “Rodriguez”, after that. He recorded two albums with Sussex, Cold Fact in 1970 and Coming from Reality in 1971. However, both sold few copies in the U.S. and he was quickly dropped by Sussex, which itself closed in 1975. At the time he was dropped, he was in the process of recording a third album which has never been released.
In 2013, it was announced that Rodriguez was in discussions with Steve Rowland, the producer of his Coming From Reality album. “I’ve written about thirty new songs,” Rodriguez told Rolling Stone magazine. “He told me to send him a couple of tapes, so I’m gonna do that. I certainly want to look him up, because now he’s full of ideas.
Although Rodriguez remained relatively unknown in his home country, by the mid-1970s his albums were starting to gain significant airplay in Australia, Botswana, New Zealand, South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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When imported copies of his Sussex albums were sold out, an Australian record label, Blue Goose Music, bought the Australian rights to his recordings. Blue Goose released his two studio albums as well as a compilation album, At His Best, that featured unreleased recordings from 1973 – “Can’t Get Away”, “I’ll Slip Away” (a re-recording of his first single), and “Street Boy”.
In 2015, Craig Bartholomew Strydom and Stephen “Sugar” Segerman published a book entitled Sugar Man: The Life, Death and Resurrection of Sixto Rodriguez.
A review in Business Day called the book “probably one of the most unusual rock ‘n roll stories out there”.
Rodriguez toured the United States and Canada as recently as 2018. He headlined a tour in August 2018.
Who was Sixto Diaz Rodriguez wife?
Sixto Was married to Konny Rodriguez. The pair began seeing each other when he first divorced from his first wife.
Soon after, Konny Rodriguez and Sixto Diaz Rodriguez were together for years until his sudden death on August 8, 2023.
Who is Konny Rodriguez?
Born as Konny Koskos, there are not many details about her aside from being known as the second wife of the late Sixto Diaz Rodriguez.
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