{"id":1828,"count":1,"description":"Brazilian guitarist and singer, known as the father of Brazilian soul music. \r\n\r\nBorn: 28 September 1942 in Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. \r\nDied: 15 March 1998 in Niter\u00f3i, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (aged 55). \r\n\r\nMaia fundamentally changed the music scene in Brazil, introducing modern black music from the US to national pop music, linking funk, samba, and bai\u00e3o, bringing soul closer to bossa nova and opening windows and doors to new forms of music that were not Tropicalist, nor MPB, nor rock n' roll, but were quintessentially Brazilian. \r\n\r\nIn 1974, he founded [l15518], the first independent music label in Brazil, the label name was taken from his initials: <strong>Se<\/strong>basti\u00e3o <strong>Ro<\/strong>drigues <strong>Ma<\/strong>ia. \r\n\r\nMany of his songs have been recorded by artists such as [a267350], [a198450], [a438893], [a360329], [a336605], [a30703], and [a83770], amongst others. \r\n\r\nAdoptive father of singer\/songwriter L\u00e9o Maia, father of Carmelo Maia and uncle of singer\/producer Ed Motta. \r\n","link":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/artista\/tim-maia\/","name":"Tim Maia","slug":"tim-maia","taxonomy":"artista","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artista"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/artista"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/egiarecords.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?artista=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}