Unexpected fame

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:

Thank you for your upvotes and comments! :)