Cold Fact Also Took Over South Africa
When Sixto Rodriguez’s first album was released in 1969 was a bomb in the U.S., “maybe selling six records.” But in Austrailia and then South Africa, Rodriguez’s lyrics about overcoming hardship made him “more popular than Elvis Presley and bigger than the Rolling Stones.”
Cold Fact Also Took Over South Africa
Songs Used As Anti-Apartheid Anthems
Part of the reason his album was so successful in South Africa is that many of his songs served as anti-Apartheid anthems and were used in protests. How cool is that!
Songs Used As Anti Apartheid Anthems
