# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tim-maia
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:30:24.185Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tim-maia"
name: "Tim Maia"
slug: "tim-maia"
description: "Sebastião \"Tim\" Rodrigues Maia was a Brazilian musician, songwriter, and businessman known for his iconoclastic, ironic, outspoken, and humorous musical style. Maia contributed to Brazilian music within a wide variety of musical genres, including soul, funk, disco, rock and roll, rhythm and blues, romantic ballads, samba, bossa nova, baião and música popular brasileira (MPB). He introduced the soul style on the Brazilian musical scene. Along with Jorge Ben, Maia pioneered samba rock and samba funk, combining samba, soul, funk and rock and roll. He is recognized as one of the biggest icons in Brazilian music."
tagline: "Brazilian singer, songwriter, producer, conductor and multi-instrumentalist (1942–1998)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TIM_MAIA_SONIA_D'ALMEIDA_1987.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1942-09-28"
deathDate: "1998-03-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.67
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.281696
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537352/"
    handle:    "nm0537352"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0jOs0wnXCu1bGGP7kh5uIu"
    handle:    "Tim Maia"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.timmaia.com.br"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "تيم مايا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تيم مايا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "تیم مایا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Maia"
    title: "Tim Maia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Maia"
    title: "Tim Maia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Maia"
    title: "Tim Maia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Maia"
    title: "Tim Maia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Maia"
    title: "Tim Maia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Maia"
    title: "Tim Maia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Maia"
    title: "Tim Maia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Maia"
    title: "Tim Maia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastianus_Rodrigues_Maia"
    title: "Sebastianus Rodrigues Maia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "تیم مایا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Maia"
    title: "Tim Maia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Maia"
    title: "Tim Maia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Maia"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://sv.wikiquote.org/wiki/Tim_Maia"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/446ac261-09ae-43f4-a7e1-2c753c0813ce"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1262590"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1414589"
    title: "Tim Maia"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump