Tim was the man. As a teenager he dreamed of making it big in the United States and immigrated to America dead set on never returning home again. However, just a few years later, he got kicked out of the country for smoking pot in a stolen car. After a few years back in Brazil he revolutionized Brazilian popular music and became one of the greatest soul artists of his lifetime. He married five times (or did he?), served multiple prison sentences (that's for sure), and at the height of his fame joined that UFO-obsessed religious cult -- how about that?
From the album World Psychedelic Classics 4: Nobody Can Live Forever – The Existential Soul of Tim Maia, out now on Luaka Bop.
