Maia performed in a variety of musical genres, ranging from happy and energetic dance music to sentimental songs such as his hit "Me Dê Motivo". He performed soul music, funk, bossa nova (in the 1990s), romantic songs, American pop, samba, baião, and Música Popular Brasileira.
He started to write his earliest songs at eight and at 14, as a drummer, he formed the group Os Tijucanos do Ritmo, which lasted one year. He then took guitar classes and was soon teaching children in the neighborhood of Tijuca, in Rio de Janeiro, including the Matoso gang (Maia, Jorge Ben, Erasmo Esteves, later Erasmo Carlos, and several others), named after the street where they used to hang out.
In that period, Maia was the guitar teacher of Esteves and when Roberto Carlos joined the gang in 1958, he also took classes with him. Maia, Carlos, and Esteves (together with Edson Trindade, Arlênio Lívio, and José Roberto "China") formed the group The Snakes (later The Sputniks), playing balls and performing on television (including on Carlos Imperial's Clube do Rock on TV Continental, where Carlos was already a regular). The group was soon dissolved due to incompatibility between Carlos and Maia.
After his father's demise in 1959, Maia won a scholarship to study communications in the United States, where he lived for four years. There he started as a vocalist, having joined the Ideals, but in 1963, he was arrested for possession of Weed.
Jailed for six months and then deported to Brazil, he did not find any warmth on the part of his old comrades Esteves and Carlos, who were beginning to enjoy the massive success of Jovem Guarda, which would get a grip on the entire country in a few years. Moving to São Paulo, he had some support from Os Mutantes instead. Having recorded in 1968 his first single with his compositions "Meu País" and "Sentimento," he became more visible after 1969 when he launched his "These Are the Songs," which was re-recorded by Elis Regina in the next year, in duo with him and included on Regina's Em Pleno Verão.
In the 1970s, Maia started to record albums and perform shows promoting his synthesis of American soul and Brazilian music with elements of samba and baião. The movement gradually took the working-class suburbs of the north side of Rio de Janeiro, exploding in 1976 with the black movement.
In 1970 Maia recorded his first full-length LP, Tim Maia, which included the classics "Azul da Cor do Mar", "Coroné Antônio Bento", and "Primavera", and topped the charts for 24 weeks in Rio de Janeiro. His first four albums were all self-titled. Next year's Tim Maia had other hits including "Não Quero Dinheiro (Só Quero Amar)" and "Preciso Aprender a Ser Só". His fourth album, released in 1973, included "Réu Confesso" and "Gostava Tanto de Você".
Maia founded two record labels: Vitória Régia Discos and Seroma. Through the latter he released the albums Tim Maia Racional, Vols. 1 & 2, both with songs about the knowledge contained in the Rational Culture, in the book Universo em Desencanto (Universe in Disenchantment). Although these albums were not well-received at their time of release, they are now regarded as classics and saw re-release in 2005. In 1978 Maia had one of his biggest hits, "Sossego," and another success with "Acenda o Farol," both launched on Tim Maia Disco Club.
In 1983 he had hits with "O Descobridor dos Sete Mares" and "Me Dê Motivo", included on O Descobridor dos Sete Mares (Polygram). Another milestone of his career in the 1980s was Tim Maia (1986), which had the hit "Do Leme ao Pontal (Tomo Guaraná, Suco de Caju, Goiabada Para Sobremesa)".
In 1990 he interpreted bossa nova classics on an album released through his label Vitória Régia that wasn't noticed, the LP Tim Maia Interpreta Clássicos da Bossa Nova. After a period of poor presence in the media, he was again on top after being mentioned by Jorge Ben Jor's "W/Brasil" in 1993. In the same period, Maia had another hit with his re-recording of "Como uma Onda" (Lulu Santos/Nelson Motta) for a television advertisement.
At the same time, he withdrew from majors, recording his next albums through Vitória Régia, including What a Wonderful World (1997), where he recorded American pop/soul classics, and Amigos do Rei/Tim Maia e Os Cariocas, with the famous vocal group. Obese and in bad health, in March 1998 he was performing at the Municipal Theater of Niterói when he became ill. Hospitalized, he died few days later. Tim had suffered from many health problems which includes Diabetes, Acute Hypertension, Obesity and Pulmonary Embolisim. In 1999 he was paid tribute in a show by several Música Popular Brasileira artists. The show was launched on CD and DVD. In 2000 he had another tribute, also released in CD.
Ela Partiu
Tim Maia Lyrics
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Partiu e nunca mais voltou
Ela sumiu, sumiu e nunca mais voltou
Se souberem onde ela está
Digam-me e vou lá buscá-la
Pelo menos telefone em seu nome
Me dêumflex uma dica, uma pista, insistaEi! e nunca mais voltou
Ela sumiu, sumiu e nunca mais voltou
E nunca mais voltou
Se eu soubesse onde ela foi iria atrás
Mas não sei mais nem direção
Várias noites que eu não durmo um segundo
Estou cansado
Magoado exausto
E nunca mais voltou
The lyrics of Tim Maia's song "Ela Partiu" convey the emotions of a broken-hearted man who has been abandoned by his love interest. The song is an expression of his sorrow and desperation to find her again. The chorus "Ela partiu, partiu e nunca mais voltou" (She left, left and never returned) is a repeated lamentation of his loss.
The singer's longing to reconnect with his love interest drives him to appeal to anyone who might know her whereabouts, "Se souberem onde ela está, digam-me e vou lá buscá-la. Pelo menos telefone em seu nome, me dê uma dica, uma pista, insista." His desperation apparent in his persistent request for any information about her location, which is causing him to suffer, "eu não durmo um segundo, estou cansado, magoado exausto."
Overall, the song is a poignant reminder of the pain of lost love and the difficulty of moving on from it. The lyrics show the bleakness of the singer's reality since the day his love left him, and how he is yet to find closure and acceptance.
Line by Line Meaning
Ela partiu
She left
Partiu e nunca mais voltou
She left and never came back
Ela sumiu, sumiu e nunca mais voltou
She disappeared, disappeared and never came back
Se souberem onde ela está
If anyone knows where she is
Digam-me e vou lá buscá-la
Tell me and I'll go get her
Pelo menos telefone em seu nome
At least call in her name
Me dêumflex uma dica, uma pista, insistaEi!
Give me a hint, a clue, insistHey!
E nunca mais voltou
And never came back
Ela partiu, partiu
She left, left
Se eu soubesse onde ela foi iria atrás
If I knew where she went I would go after her
Mas não sei mais nem direção
But I don't even know the direction anymore
Várias noites que eu não durmo um segundo
Several nights I haven't slept a second
Estou cansado Magoado exausto
I'm tired, hurt, exhausted
E nunca mais voltou
And never came back
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
Written by: CARLOS ALBERTO CAMPELO CAJUEIRO, SEBASTIAO RODRIGUES MAIA
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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Ela partiu
Partiu e nunca mais voltou
Ela sumiu, sumiu e nunca mais voltou
Se souberem onde ela está
Digam-me e vou lá buscá-la
Pelo menos telefone em seu nome
Me dêumflex uma dica, uma pista, insistaEi! e nunca mais voltou
Ela sumiu, sumiu e nunca mais voltou
Ela partiu, partiu
E nunca mais voltou
Se eu soubesse onde ela foi iria atrás
Mas não sei mais nem direção
Várias noites que eu não durmo um segundo
Estou cansado
Magoado exausto
E nunca mais voltou ..
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Tim Maia – Ela Partiu (Official Audio)
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@PlanetaNovo
ela partiu.. tim maia eterno
@thiagobarbosa4670
vc ta igual o bruxo em fabil
@arthurrodrigues9900
Mulher te deixou tbm cara ?
@santyseia7315
Triste vida dos cornos com saudade da morena
@user-ix6ok7fh9x
eai #forçafabil
@artefilosofica
Você aqui mano
@LucazCarvalho
Pra você que está escutando em 2023 , parabéns você tem um bom gosto musical ❤
@daviz7771
Meu bisa avô falava pra mim colocar Tim Maia, pq ele gostava más pena q ele se foi, q deu o tenha.
@cienecampos6422
Pior, viciei kkkkkkkkkkkk que achado meu deus!!!!
@biel.sousar
Obrigado mn