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Tim Maia
	Tim Maia in 1987
Algemene informatie
Volledige naam	Sebastião Rodrigues Maia
Geboren	28 september 1942
Geboorteplaats	Rio de Janeiro
Overleden	15 maart 1998
Overlijdensplaats	Niterói
Land	Brazilië
Werk
Jaren actief	1957-1988
Genre(s)	Samba, soul
Label(s)	Polydor
	Officiële website;
Portaal	Muziek

Sebastião Rodrigues Maia (Rio de Janeiro, 28 september 1942 - Niterói, 15 maart 1998) was een Braziliaanse artiest. Hij staat bekend om zijn eigenzinnige stijl, waarin weliswaar soul de boventoon voert, maar ook elementen van onder meer bossa nova, samba en funk in terug te vinden zijn.

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Tim Maia had two sons: Carmelo Maia (also known as Telmo, b. 1975) with Geisa Gomes da Silva, and José Carlos da Silva Nogueira (1966–2002). He was also the surrogate father of Geisa's other son, Marcio Leonardo "Léo" Maia (b. 1974).^[1] Léo was registered by Tim as his son, although he knew that Léo was not his child, since he met his wife Geisa when she was already pregnant. She had been separated from her boyfriend, who refused to recognize Léo as his child.^[2] Tim and Geisa started living together but they broke up after a few arguments. When they made up, she was pregnant with Carmelo. Tim registered Carmelo and married her. When Léo Maia was 12, Tim Maia and Geisa divorced.

Maia lived in the United States of America from 1959 to 1963. He first resided Tarrytown, New York, with the family of an acquaintance of Maia's father's costumer. There he learned English and did not speak much Portuguese because so few Brazilians were living in the USA at the time. In 1961, Maia moved to New York City, and in 1963 with a group of three friends decided to travel to Southern United States. With a stolen car and performing small thefts to finance the journey (which got him arrested five times), Maia and friends travelled through nine states before arriving in Florida. In Daytona Beach, Maia had his final imprisonment for marijuana possession, which earned him deportation back to Brazil.^[3]

Tussen 1959 en 1963 woonde Maia in Tarrytown, in de Verenigde Staten.

Tim Maia became a member of the Brazilian Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Brasileiro – PSB) in October 1997.^[4] He was rumoured to have joined the party in order to run for a seat in the Federal Senate for Rio de Janeiro in the 1998 general elections, but died before that.^[4] When asked by a reporter why he chose to join the then small PSB, he replied: "Brazil is the only country where – in addition to whores cumming, pimps being jealous and drug dealers being addicted – poor people vote for the right-wing".^[4] His phrase would become a famous aphorism on the way Brazilians face politics.^[4]

He was also known his easygoing lifestyle, and for his habit of lightheartedly missing appointments and even important gigs.^[5] Indeed, Maia had a tradition of arriving late at concerts, at times missing them altogether. He also frequently complained about the sound quality in them. Many of his missed concerts were due to what he called his "triathlon", consuming whiskey, cocaine and marijuana before a gig.^[6] In the end of his life, Tim Maia suffered from many health problems which included diabetes, acute hypertension, obesity and pulmonary embolism. In 1996, he had a Fournier gangrene solved through an emergency operation.^[7]