Forty years ago, an American singer-songwriter whose music never found an audience at home became a star in South Africa, but he didn’t know it until decades later.

A new documentary by a Swedish filmmaker tells the remarkable story of “Searching For Sugar Man.”

“It’s still a bit of a mystery how the first copy of ‘Cold Fact’ actually came to South Africa, but it spread very quickly,” says Capetown record store owner Stephen Segerman. “To many of us South Africans, he was the soundtrack to our lives.”