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.
Quer Queira Quer Não Queira
Tim Maia Lyrics
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Todos vão ler, o Universo em Desencanto
Que são menssagens de um lugar superior
O que é preciso? é muito simples
Ler e reler
Pro seu sucesso aqui na Terra
Até o tempo da matéria terminar
Viva a Cultura Racional
Não é história, não é doutrina
Não é ciência, ceita ou religião
É coisa limpa, é coisa pura
Para o caminho da eterna salvação
Viva a Cultura Racional
Linda cultura trancidental
Estando imune, a energia, animal
Adube mente fica ligado
A sua origem Super Mundo Racional
Viva a Cultura Racional
Linda cultura trancidental
E lá recebe o que é preciso
Todo o equilíbrio, toda orientação
Para que tudo, tudo der certo
Em sua casa, seu trabalho ou condução
Mas é preciso e não se esqueça
Melhor paseio é ter o livro na mão
Para que possa, o cargo certo
E o seu transporte para a eterna salvação
The lyrics of Tim Maia's song Quer Queira Quer Não Queira speak to the importance of reading and studying "O Livro dos Espíritos," the fundamental text of the Brazilian spiritualist movement, Universo em Desencanto. The song urges listeners to "read and re-read" the teachings in order to achieve success on Earth and to ultimately attain eternal salvation.
The lyrics emphasize that Universo em Desencanto is not a history, doctrine, science, sect or religion but rather a pure and clean thing that leads to eternal salvation. The song asserts that by immersing oneself in the teachings of Universo em Desencanto, one can tap into the energy of the Super Rational World and attain balance, guidance, and orientation in all aspects of life.
The final verse of the song stresses the importance of having "O Livro dos Espíritos" on hand, as it helps readers to achieve the "cargo certo," or the right position in life, and to attain transportation to eternal salvation.
Overall, the lyrics of Quer Queira Quer Não Queira express the belief that Universo em Desencanto holds the key to achieving success and salvation in life and that reading and understanding its teachings is therefore essential.
Line by Line Meaning
Queira ou não queira
Whether you like it or not
Todos vão ler, o Universo em Desencanto
Everyone will read the Universe in Disenchantment
Que são mensagens de um lugar superior
Which are messages from a higher place
O que é preciso? é muito simples
What is needed? It's very simple
Ler e reler
To read and reread
Pro seu sucesso aqui na Terra
For your success here on Earth
Até o tempo da matéria terminar
Until the time of matter ends
Viva a Cultura Racional
Long live the Racional Culture
Linda cultura trancendental
Beautiful transcendental culture
Não é história, não é doutrina
It's not history, it's not doctrine
Não é ciência, ceita ou religião
It's not science, sect or religion
É coisa limpa, é coisa pura
It's something clean, it's something pure
Para o caminho da eterna salvação
For the path of eternal salvation
Estando imune, a energia, animal
Being immune to animal energy
Adube mente fica ligado
Fertilize your mind and stay connected
A sua origem Super Mundo Racional
Your origin is the Racional Super World
E lá recebe o que é preciso
And there you receive what is needed
Todo o equilíbrio, toda orientação
All balance, all guidance
Para que tudo, tudo der certo
So that everything, everything goes well
Em sua casa, seu trabalho ou condução
In your home, your work or your transportation
Mas é preciso e não se esqueça
But it's necessary and don't forget
Melhor passeio é ter o livro na mão
The best ride is to have the book in your hand
Para que possa, o cargo certo
So that you can have the right position
E o seu transporte para a eterna salvação
And your transportation to eternal salvation
Contributed by Kylie N. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Juan Arango
Brutal, que sonido!! Saludos y respeto desde España ;)
Adriano Uriel S dos Santos
conozca la rational culture ;)
Jefferson Brown
O Rei do Soul Brasileiro!!!
Máximo respeito!!!
Bruno Gabriel
Junto ao Cassiano
Renan Macedo
32 pessoas não leram o livro Universo em desencanto.
Caio Alves
Agora ninguém mais saberá quantas pessoas não leram, yt censurando até os deslikes.
Ilune Chan
65
Glvb Oppenheimer
65 kkk
Gabriel Rocha
@antgabriel de graça na internet mas é muito louca a historia
SniffinGlue
só acho que essa religião é uma farsa, o própio Tim Desaprovou a Cultura Racional, sem contar que esse livro em si é uma brisa muito doida