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.
You Don't Know What I Know
Tim Maia Lyrics
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What I know
Because I know
Where we came from
We came from a super world
World of rational energy
And we live
World of animals energy
Read the book, the only book, the book of God
Universe in Disenchantment
And you're going to know the truth
The lyrics to Tim Maia's song "You Don't Know What I Know" express the feelings of a person who is struggling to cope after their lover has left them. The first stanza, "I don't know what to do with myself, Baby, since you've been gone," communicates the feelings of helplessness and inadequacy experienced by the person. They are lost and don't know how to move on without their lover. They say "I just love you, Baby, please come back" in the hopes of reuniting with their loved one.
The second stanza, "O destino desse rio é o mar, Meu destino, seu amor, A vida só vai valer, Se por onde eu for, Vier você" which means "the destiny of this river is the sea, my destiny, is your love, life will only be worth it, if wherever I go, you come with me," illustrates the depth of the person's emotional connection to their lover. They feel incomplete without them, and their life is meaningless without their presence. They believe that their destiny lies with their lover, and their happiness depends on their presence.
Overall, the song beautifully captures the pain, longing, and helplessness of a person who has lost their loved one, and their desperation to get them back.
Line by Line Meaning
I don't know what to do with myself
I am lost and have no direction in life
Baby, since you've been gone
Ever since you left, my life has been empty
I don't know what to do myself
I am hopeless without you
I just love you
I have strong feelings of affection towards you
Baby, please come back
I earnestly request for you to return to me
O destino desse rio é o mar
The destiny of this river is the sea
Meu destino, seu amor
My destiny is your love
A vida só vai valer
Life will only have value
Se por onde eu for
If, no matter where I go
Vier você
You come with me
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: Sebastiao Rodrigues Maia
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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@marcelopaletta3600
Alguém 2020? Tim Maia monstro. Bebeu na fonte. EUA, anos 60/70, berço da cultura funk Soul. Talento esse cara.
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2021 e sigo ouvindo apaixonada. Sonzera!!
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Brabo de mais 🙅🏻♂️
@noivatco
tim maia é atemporal, intergaláctico, interdimensional, multiversal racional, meu camarada