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Sixto Díaz Rodríguez, ook bekend als Rodriguez of Jesús Rodríguez (Detroit (Michigan), 10 juli 1942 – aldaar, 8 augustus 2023) was een Amerikaans folkmuzikant van Mexicaanse afkomst. Hij bracht in de jaren zeventig twee albums uit die matig verkochten, en deed wat optredens in Australië. Daarna trok hij zich uit de muziekbusiness terug. Hij werkte als sloper, studeerde filosofie, en was burgemeesterskandidaat.

Zonder dat hij het wist werd zijn muziek veel gedraaid in Zuid-Afrika waar hij uitgroeide tot een legende. Over Rodriguez ging het verhaal dat hij zelfmoord had gepleegd. In de jaren negentig gingen Zuid-Afrikaanse fans op onderzoek uit. Zij wisten ten slotte (in 1998) contact met hem te leggen, wat leidde tot een onverwachte opleving van zijn muzikale carrière en optredens in Zuid-Afrika. Over deze zoektocht, en de gelukkige afloop ervan, gaat de documentaire Searching for Sugar Man (2012) van de Zweedse regisseur Malik Bendjelloul.

Sixto Diaz Rodríguez (July 10, 1942 – August 8, 2023), mononymously known as Rodríguez, was an American musician from Detroit, Michigan.

Though his career was initially met with little fanfare in the United States, he found success in South Africa, Australia (touring the country twice in his earlier career), and New Zealand. Unbeknownst to him for decades, his music grew extremely successful and influential in South Africa, where he is believed to have sold more records than Elvis Presley. Information about him was scarce, and it was incorrectly rumored there that he had died by suicide shortly after releasing his second album.

In the 1990s, determined South African fans managed to find and contact Rodriguez, which led to an unexpected revival of his musical career. This was told in the 2012 Academy Award-winning documentary film Searching for Sugar Man and helped give Rodriguez a measure of fame in his home country. In May 2013, Rodriguez received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from his alma mater, Wayne State University, in Detroit.

Rodriguez lived in Detroit's historic Woodbridge neighborhood, through which he is seen walking in Searching for Sugar Man. He lived a simple life, possessing no telephone, and occasionally visited bars in the Cass Corridor section of Detroit near Woodbridge and Midtown, such as the Old Miami pub, where he performed live concerts for small local crowds.