Every rock musician wants to become famous. **Rodriguez** for decades didn't know how popular he was in South Africa. With his songs, people in *Botswana, Zimbabve, and South Africa* made a revolution, anti-Apartheid movement. He was as popular there as Bob Dylan. 
It was in 70-80' when he gave up an idea to become a musician and  worked in demolition and badly paid jobs being always under the edge. This guy had a mysterious reputation and didn't know how famous he was in that countries until his daughter told him that she found a website about him. His fans in Africa thought that he committed suicide. Actually, it was in the pre-Internet era. Some years later two film-directors (Simon Chinn and John Battsek) decided to find him and shot a documentary with a self-explanatory name **"Searching for Sugar Man"**. The movie was warmly accepted at Sundance film festival, won the Oscar, the BAFTA etc. 
But what I wanted to say that this kind of shift amazes me and of course gives some hope. Imagine what would happen to him if he continued with music...And I really love Rodriguez's "Sugar man", it helps in hard times. 

I can't wait to share it with you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywBE3wf55bM&t=1374s 

Thank you for your upvotes and comments! :)