WHO IS

Joseph Salvador (a.k.a. José Salvador, Zé Salvador) is a musician, author, record producer and New Media designer from Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Currently artist with Black Tulip, MDA and Funky Mood Orchestra, born in Portugal, Joseph Salvador spent his youth in Alentejo and Lisbon, had the first music lessons from his grand uncle of the same name who was a composer and music director of national Philharmonic Orchestras.

In the late 60’s and early 70’s learned to play the guitar and keyboards to form local garage rock bands. A journalist at the age of 16, reporter at the Cascais Jazz festivals, co-organizes a jazz exhibition for the Rotary Club. In the same year travels on his own through Europe and visits Amsterdam for the first time.

In the mid 70’s co-owns and manages the Zodiac Café in Lisbon, programming bands of experimental music, free jazz, blues and rock, works as a journalist for a daily newspaper, studies Philosophy and teaches Literature and Art at a secondary school.

In the late 70’s Joseph Salvador leaves Portugal to Amsterdam to pursue studies in music and graphic design. He does artwork for the Disco organizations of Rhythm Import and Eddie de Clercq. In the early 80’s creates the music studio ‘the Wheel’ at the old jail building ‘De Balie’, next to the Paradiso and Melkweg rock venues. In the next years Joseph Salvador also studies Musicology at the University of Amsterdam. His first commercial recordings were done in 1984 at the Berlin’s Conservatory studios and released in 1986 by Polygram Records and Southern Music Publishing.

In 1988 funds and owns the Portland Recording Studios and the next year the Portland Music Publishing company, a division of EMI Music Publishing Holland. In 1989 starts TINK! Records, one of Holland’s initial House labels and the first Dutch independent dance music label to make a joint-venture with a major company EMI Records and thus creating a catalogue of 25 releases and 3 sub-labels.

In the late 80’s to mid 90’s Joseph Salvador writes and produces with different artists. The work is released on TINK! Records, EMI records, Sony Music and licensed worldwide. Artists such as Black Tulip (NL), Wendell Morrison (USA), Marian Rolle (USA), Venus (NL), Electronic Voodoo (NL), MDA feat. Lilian Vieira (Brazil), MDA feat. Nayma (Portugal), Thyone Girls (NL), Digital Cartel (NL), Lowlife Winners (NL), EDC a.k.a. Eddie de Clercq (NL), Formosa (UK, NL, D), Dany Silva (Cabo Verde) and Sloopy Mike Gyamfi (Ghana).

In 1998, Joseph Salvador manages Club 909 and The Protest Club, saturday night events at the Club Ministry in Amsterdam, creating the club concepts, graphic arts and the DJ / VJ programming.

From 1998 to 2003 Joseph Salvador switches his attention to graphic design and New Media to join Total Design / Total Identity, one of the most prestigious Dutch Design companies. In 2004 starts his own company Joseph Salvador – Internet & Multimedia.

In 2009 Joseph Salvador starts Tomorrow is Now, kid! Music, Internet & Events company and the Pimp my Beats – Sound Garage, recording studio.