Sixto Rodriguez, the Glossary
Sixto Diaz Rodriguez (July 10, 1942 – August 8, 2023), mononymously known as Rodriguez, was an American musician from Detroit, Michigan.[1]
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108 relations: A&M Records, Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film, Academy Awards, Adelaide, AllMusic, ARIA Charts, Australia, Australian Recording Industry Association, BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, BBC, BBC World Service, Beacon Theatre (New York City), Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Bob Dylan, Botswana, Buddah Records, Business Day (South Africa), Byron Bay Bluesfest, Candy (2006 film), Cass Corridor, Cat Stevens, Clarence Avant, CNN, Cold Fact, Columbia Records, Columbia, Missouri, Coming from Reality, Dave Matthews Band, David Holmes (musician), Detroit, Detroit City Council, Discogs, Doctor of Humane Letters, Dutch Album Top 100, Elvis Presley, Folk rock, Glastonbury Festival, Glaucoma, Heath Ledger, Hitlisten, HuffPost, Impact Records, Inner city, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Jools Holland, Just Jinjer, L.A. Record, Late Show with David Letterman, Later... with Jools Holland, ... Expand index (58 more) »
A&M Records
A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.
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Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film
The Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film is an award for documentary films.
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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.
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Adelaide
Adelaide (Tarntanya) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
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ARIA Charts
The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Australian Recording Industry Association
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade association representing the Australian recording industry which was established in the 1970s by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956.
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BAFTA Award for Best Documentary
This page lists the winners for the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary, formerly known as the Robert Flaherty Documentary Award, for each year.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC.
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Beacon Theatre (New York City)
The Beacon Theatre is an entertainment venue at 2124 Broadway, adjacent to the Hotel Beacon, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.
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Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Sixto Rodriguez and bob Dylan are American acoustic guitarists, American folk guitarists, American folk singers and American rock songwriters.
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Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
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Buddah Records
Buddah Records (later known as Buddha Records) was an American record label founded in 1967 in New York City.
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Business Day (South Africa)
Business Day is a national daily newspaper in South Africa, published weekdays (Monday to Friday) and also available as an e-paper.
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Byron Bay Bluesfest
The Byron Bay Bluesfest, formerly the East Coast International Blues & Roots Music Festival, is an annual Australian music festival that has been held over the Easter long weekend in the Byron Bay, New South Wales, area since 1990.
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Candy (2006 film)
Candy is a 2006 Australian romantic drama film, adapted from Luke Davies's 1998 novel Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction.
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Cass Corridor
The Cass Corridor is a neighborhood on the west end of Midtown Detroit.
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Cat Stevens
Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou), commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf / Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and musician.
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Clarence Avant
Clarence Alexander Avant (February 25, 1931 – August 13, 2023) was a prominent American music executive and film producer.
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CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
Cold Fact
Cold Fact is the debut studio album by American singer-songwriter Rodriguez, released in the United States by Sussex Records in March 1970.
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Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the American division of multinational conglomerate Sony.
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Columbia, Missouri
Columbia is a city in the U.S. state of Missouri.
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Coming from Reality
Coming from Reality is the second and final studio album from American singer–songwriter Rodriguez, originally released by Sussex Records in 1971.
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Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band (also known as DMB) is an American rock band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1991.
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David Holmes (musician)
David Holmes (born 25 February 1969) is a Northern Irish musician and composer.
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Detroit
Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Detroit City Council
The Detroit City Council is the legislative body of Detroit, Michigan, United States.
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Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.
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Doctor of Humane Letters
The degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (DHumLitt, DHL, or LHD) is an honorary degree awarded to those who have distinguished themselves through humanitarian and philanthropic contributions to society.
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Dutch Album Top 100
The Dutch Album Top 100 or Album Top 100 is a weekly hit list of music albums, compiled by Dutch Charts.
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), known mononymously as Elvis, was an American singer and actor.
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Folk rock
Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music.
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Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival (formally Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts held near Pilton, Somerset, England, in most summers.
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Glaucoma
Glaucoma is a group of eye diseases that lead to damage of the optic nerve, which transmits visual information from the eye to the brain.
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Heath Ledger
Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian actor.
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Hitlisten
Hitlisten, also known as Tracklisten, is a Danish top 40 record chart that is updated every Wednesday at midnight on the website hitlisten.nu.
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HuffPost
HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.
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Impact Records
Impact Records was an American record label founded in 1989 by Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers.
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Inner city
The term inner city has been used, especially in the United States, as a euphemism for majority-minority lower-income residential districts that often refer to rundown neighborhoods, in a downtown or city centre area.
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International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) is the world's largest documentary film festival held annually since 1988 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Jools Holland
Julian Miles Holland (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter.
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Just Jinjer
Just Jinjer (formerly known as Just Jinger) is a contemporary rock group hailing from South Africa.
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L.A. Record
L.A. Record is an independent music magazine originally published weekly as a broadsheet poster.
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Late Show with David Letterman
The Late Show with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS, the first iteration of the ''Late Show'' franchise.
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Later... with Jools Holland
Later...
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Le Monde
Le Monde (The World) is a French daily afternoon newspaper.
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Legacy Recordings
Legacy Recordings is an American record label that is a division of Sony Music.
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Light in the Attic Records
Light in the Attic Records is an independent record label that was established in 2002 in Seattle, Washington by Matt Sullivan.
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List of mayors of Detroit
This is a list of mayors of Detroit, Michigan.
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Malik Bendjelloul
Malik Bendjelloul (14 September 1977 – 13 May 2014) was a Swedish documentary filmmaker, journalist and actor.
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Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
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Michael Moore
Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and author.
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Michigan House of Representatives
The Michigan House of Representatives is the lower house of the Michigan Legislature.
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Midtown Detroit
Midtown Detroit is a commercial and residential district located along the east and west side of Woodward Avenue, north of Downtown Detroit, and south of the New Center area.
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Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau.
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Montreux Jazz Festival
The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline.
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Muddy Waters
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".
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Nas
Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones (born September 14, 1973), known professionally as Nas, is an American rapper and entrepreneur.
NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
Official Charts Company
The Official Charts Company (OCC or Official Charts; previously known as the Chart Information Network, CIN, and the Official UK Charts Company; legally known as the Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.
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Official New Zealand Music Chart
The Official New Zealand Music Chart (Te Papa Tātai Waiata Matua o Aotearoa) is the weekly New Zealand top 40 singles and albums charts, issued weekly by Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand).
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Paolo Nutini
Paolo Giovanni Nutini (born 9 January 1987) is a Scottish singer-songwriter from Paisley.
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Psychedelic folk
Psychedelic folk (sometimes acid folk or freak folk) is a loosely defined form of psychedelia that originated in the 1960s.
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Psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a rock music genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.
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RCA Records
RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
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Rodriguez at His Best
At His Best is a compilation album by American singer/song writer, Rodriguez.
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.
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Ruarri Joseph
Ruarri Joseph (born 3 January 1982) is a Scottish singer-songwriter.
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SABC
The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) is the public broadcaster in South Africa, and provides 19 radio stations (AM/FM) as well as six television broadcasts to the general public.
Sasquatch! Music Festival
Sasquatch! Music Festival was an annual music festival held at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington, United States.
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Searching for Sugar Man
Searching for Sugar Man is a 2012 documentary film about a South African cultural phenomenon, written and directed by Malik Bendjelloul, which details the efforts in the late 1990s of two Cape Town fans, Stephen "Sugar" Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, to find out whether the rumoured death of American musician Sixto Rodriguez was true and, if not, to discover what had become of him.
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Searching for Sugar Man (soundtrack)
Searching for Sugar Man is the 2012 soundtrack album from the documentary, Searching for Sugar Man, containing a compilation of songs by Rodriguez from his two studio albums.
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SNEP
SNEP (Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique, in English National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing) is the inter-professional organisation that protects the interests of the French record industry.
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Steve Biko
Bantu Stephen Biko OMSG (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.
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Steve Rowland (record producer)
Stephen Jacob Rowland (born September 3, 1932, in Los Angeles, California) is an American singer, columnist, record producer and actor.
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Stillmatic
Stillmatic is the fifth studio album by American rapper Nas, released on December 18, 2001, by Ill Will and Columbia Records.
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Sugar Man (song)
"Sugar Man" is a song written and recorded by Sixto Rodriguez in August–September 1969 and released on his debut studio album, Cold Fact, in 1970.
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Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute.
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Sussex Records
Sussex Records Inc. was an American, Los Angeles-based record label, founded by music executive and businessman Clarence Avant, that existed from 1969 through 1975.
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Sverigetopplistan
Sverigetopplistan (lit. "the Sweden top list") is the Swedish national record chart, formerly known as Topplistan (1975–1997) and Hitlistan (1998–2007) and known by its current name since October 2007, based on sales data from the Swedish Recording Industry Association (in Swedish Grammofonleverantörernas förening).
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Swedish Recording Industry Association
Grammofonleverantörernas förening (GLF), or the Swedish Recording Industry Association in English, is an organization representing the music recording industry of Sweden.
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Swiss Hitparade
The Swiss Hitparade (Schweizer Hitparade) is Switzerland's main music sales charts.
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Sydney
Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.
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The Andrew Marr Show
The Andrew Marr Show is a Sunday morning talk show presented by Andrew Marr.
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The Avener
Tristan Casara (born 23 January 1987), known by his stage name The Avener, is a French deep house and electro DJ and music producer from Nice.
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The Gorge Amphitheatre
The Gorge Amphitheatre, originally known as Champs de Brionne Music Theatre, is an outdoor concert venue in Grant County, Washington, United States.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The South African
The South African is an English-language South African online news publication created in March 2003 by the multinational media company, Blue Sky Publications, and it operates as an online news and lifestyle publication with offices in South Africa and the United Kingdom.
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The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is an American late-night talk show hosted by Jay Leno that first aired from May 25, 1992, to May 29, 2009.
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True/False Film Festival
True/False Film Fest is an annual documentary film festival that takes place in Columbia, Missouri.
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UK Albums Chart
The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom.
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Ultratop
Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium.
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Universal Music Enterprises
Universal Music Enterprises (UME, stylized as UMe) is the catalogue division of Universal Music Group.
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Way Out West (festival)
Way Out West is a three-day music festival held in Gothenburg, Sweden, during August that plays host to a variety of popular music artists mainly from the rock, electronic and hip-hop genres.
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Wayne State University
Wayne State University (WSU or simply Wayne) is a public research university in Detroit, Michigan.
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Woodbridge, Detroit
Woodbridge is a historic neighborhood of primarily Victorian homes located in Detroit, Michigan.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.
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60 Minutes
60 Minutes is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network.
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85th Academy Awards
The 85th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2012 and took place on February 24, 2013, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time Zone (PST) / 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time Zone (EST).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixto_Rodriguez
Also known as Can't Get Away, I'll Slip Away, Jesús Díaz (folksinger), Jesús Rodríguez (American musician), Jesús Rodríguez (folk musician), Jesús Sixto Díaz, Jesús Sixto Díaz Rodríguez, Jesús Sixto Díaz-Rodríguez, Jesús Sixto Rodríguez, Rod Riguez, Rodriguez (musician), Rodriguez (singer), Rodriguez (singer-songwriter), Rodriguez Sixto, Rodriguez discography, Sixth Prince, Sixto Díaz Rodríguez, Sixto Rodríguez (American musician), Sixto Rodríguez (folk musician), Sixto Rodriguez discography, Sixto Rodriquez, Street Boy.
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