Deu no 'New York Times': Tim Maia

Like many Brazilians, Maia, who would have turned 70 last month, had a mixed racial background: his grandfathers were Portuguese and Italian, his grandmothers of African and Amerindian descent. But from the moment he first heard the music of Little Richard as a teenager, he chose to identify himself as black, and his most significant contribution to his country’s culture was to bring black American pop styles — first soul, then disco and funk — into the Brazilian mainstream.

Este perfil de Tim Maia para "The New York Times", assinado pelo famoso Larry Rohter, é "velho" para os padrões da internet. Todo mundo já deve ter lido. Mas vai que alguém seja atrasado, como eu.

Essa fase de Sebastião Maia produziu um dos meus discos preferidos, ever