Tim Maia Podgycast

So I had a lot of fun listening to Tim Maia this month. Tim Grew up in Tijuca Rio De Janeiro, in the same neighborhood as Jorge Ben Jor, Who I will be profiling for a later podcast. Tim won a journalism scholarship to study in the United States as a teenager. He stayed in the New York area for 3 years before being deported for rowdiness. His time in the US influenced his funk-soul samba which he helped to define as a genre. Tim was criticized for the lack of political content in his music. During the Military Dictatorship of Brazil while Tim's contemporaries Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil were being censured and deported for their condemnation of the then government he was simply making jams, and jams they were! Tim was a marijuana-smoking, cocaine-snorting, new-age religion worshipping, food-consuming subject. The biography released last year not only tracks his career but also his weight throughout the epic. I was going to try to write a vivid description of the music, but I decided to let the music speak for itself. So without further ado. Tim Maia.