I’d like to start this blog with a post about a Brazilian musician named Sebastião Rodrigues Maia a.k.a. Tim Maia. If you already know him, he needs no further introduction. But if not, you should know that he was responsible for introducing soul into Brazilian popular music. He was born in Rio de Janeiro in the 40’s and died in 1998.

He also had a somewhat complicated life, so if you want to know him better here is Tim Maia’s bio narrated by Devendra Banhart.