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Whitehead has a reputation for following his own path. By the standards of the religious right, he qualifies as a bit of a cultural maverick. (His taste in music runs to the only-sometimes-spiritual U2 and the intricately ironic Beck. His favorite artist is the mordant British painter Francis Bacon.) Although the institute has never taken up a sexual-harassment case before, he says he accepted this one because it was a "human-rights issue." And because "I think she's telling the truth...
...albums by young performers provides part of the answer. There's pop singer Diana King with her new release, Think Like a Girl (Work Group); the hip-hop-charged star Capleton with his album I-Testament (Def Jam); and trip-hop-tinged newcomer Finley Quaye with his debut CD Maverick a Strike (550 Music). A much more established star, South African traditionalist Lucky Dube, also has a new CD out, Taxman (Shanachie). The fact that reggae, like a nation secure enough to welcome new immigrants, is able to nurture such a varied group of up-and-comers is a sign...
Finley Quaye's inventive, off-kilter debut, Maverick a Strike, is also bursting with freshness and new life. His music has a sinuous reggae groove twisting through it, but it is laced with folky acoustic guitars and trip-hop electronic doodles and flourishes (he's an uncle of trip-hop maverick Tricky). It's easy for music this arty to forget about heart, but not here; on the song Even After All, Quaye turns in a tender, haunting ballad...
...maverick when I was in a position of authority," he said. "Out of office you don't have the constraints on you that you did [in power]. When you have a few years between the immediacy of these things you develop more perspective...
More to the point, Holland is fiercely protective of her independence as an artist, citing how many maverick filmmakers "make one interesting movie, and then the next thing they do is some thriller made for profit." Holland did not, however, buy into the notion of a "revived" independent cinema that dovetailed with the success of The English Patient, Secrets & Lies and other non-Hollywood pictures late last year. Again, her multicultural background clearly affords her a unique perspective...