The 70-year-old singer made famous by the Oscar-winning documentary "Searching forSugarMan" performed Sunday night to a worshipful crowd at Manhattan's Beacon Theatre.
SearchingForSugarMan has also been nominated for a best documentary Bafta and won the audience awards at both the Sundance and Los Angeles film festivals.
"Searching forSugarMan, " a widely praised movie also distributed by Sony Pictures Classics about the hunt for the missing musician Sixto Rodriguez, won the award for best feature documentary.
Among the other DGA winners were SearchingforSugarMan director Malik Bendjelloul, who won the guild's documentary award for his study of the obscure singer-songwriter Sixto Rodriquez.
Snatched up in a flash by Harvey Weinstein's TWC-Radius at Sundance, it's on track for the same Academy Award that "Searching forSugarMan" claimed a few months ago.
SearchingforSugarMan, which tells the story of musician Rodriguez who disappeared from public view in the early 1970s but developed a cult following in South Africa, won the Oscar for best documentary.