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  • INTERVIEWED BY:

    Yankee Kiwis

  • INTERVIEW LOCATION:

    Muriwai Beach, Auckland New Zealand

  • AIRED ON:

    Public Television: Season Six

  • ON DVD:

    Roadtrip Nation: Season Six

TIKI TAANE

Musician
Solo Artist/ Former Front Man of Salmonella Dub

“I try and treat my soul, my spirit, like it's somebody I know and the more I respect it and the better I treat it, then the better I am.”

INTERESTS:

Musicians

THEMES DISCUSSED:

Money & Financial Security Passion

TAGS:

gangs, guitar, prison, respect, separation, soul, spirit, violence

BIOGRAPHY:

Tiki Taane got into trouble growing up in Christchurch. His parents gave him a guitar, which set off his passion for music. He wrote his own music while working as a sound engineer for other musicians and fronted well-known New Zealand band Salmonella Dub for 11 years. Later, his first solo release, Past, Present, Future became the Number One album of 2007 in New Zealand. Tiki also founded Tikidub Productions and works as a producer, engineer, and artist in Auckland.