Sixto Rodriguez Young. From coming from reality 1971. His father had immigrated to the united states from mexico in the 1920s.
He was the sixth child of mexican immigrant working class parents. Sixto rodriguez was only 16 years old when he started playing his family s guitar. They were too young to see action in world war ii and too old to participate in the fun of the summer of love.
Sixto rodriguez noriega is part of the silent generation which followed after the g i.
He was named sixto pronounced seex toh because he was their sixth son. As young adults during the mccarthy era many members of this generation felt it was dangerous to speak out. Detroit singer sixto rodriguez s songs of protest and alienation made him a legend in apartheid era south africa though he did not know this until decades later. Rodriguez was born in 1942 in detroit michigan.
