Thank you for keeping me alive
March 6, 1998 South Africa concert, a unique legend for Rodriguez and fans
If you decide your life with art, you can't live like an ordinary person.
On the first day after resignation, I watched this documentary, which I have collected for a long time, with tears in my eyes. If it weren't for the enthusiastic fans, I might have lived a poor and hard life until death. Over the past 20 years, even as a coolie, he can wear a tuxedo, he can take the children to museums, to see art exhibitions, art makes him so rich and calm.
When he held a concert in South Africa for the first time, in front of 5,000 people, he said Thank you for keeping me alive
The look of complete peace on his face, it feels like the place he's been looking for all his life, the feeling of home is a recognition that Rodriguez lives somewhere on the other side of the world, but he's found a home here.
I can't help thinking that even without the subsequent South African concerts, doing physical work day after day, he is still himself, rich and peaceful, because the spirit of music is still there.
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