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Salvador Brown was born in New Zealand and is of Samoan and European descent. He is a sound and visual practitioner now based in Auckland after growing up in London, where he was a member of Ngāti Ranana-Maori Cultural Group, Maramara Totara-London based Taiaha Roopu and Beats of Polynesia Dance group. He first blew the pū (conch) at the age of 4 and has had a love affair with Taonga Puoro ever since. Photography and Videography are his second love shooting stills on film sets to documenting SaVĀges and Sisters.
He  was raised  surrounded by the Pasifika arts scene as a child of the one of the Pacific Sisters who he often collaborates with and  participated in the Inaugural London SaVĀge K'lub in 2011. Going on to document them for the Queensland Art Gallery's 8th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in  2015. Horomona Horo is currently mentoring him as he develops a research project "Fagu Tagi - Bottled Sound" a comparative study of Maori and Samoan musical instruments for the P