Showing posts with label Sixto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sixto. Show all posts

Sunday, 30 March 2014

Sixto

Sixto Rodriguez is seventy two years old. He's named 'Sixto' because he's the sixth child in a Mexican immigrant family.

He sings sublimely beautiful songs. No-one listened to them back in the 70's, but we listen to them now.  He's nearly blind, walks on stage supported by his carers, but this man can sing from the heart.

The pictures below are not of Sixto Rodriguez, they are of the time and stage he filled with his music.  In his blindness he sets us alight ….