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With a voice as pure as birdsong, she has soared to the top of the charts, becoming New Zealand's biggest-selling female artist. No, we're not talking about Hayley Westenra, the Wellington schoolgirl who took Amazing Grace to Enya-like heights, but the exotic musical hybrid that is Bic Runga. In 2002, a year before Westenra hit her high notes, this Maori-Chinese singer-songwriter took the simple guitar hooks of Drive to a new level with Beautiful Collision, an album in which she exploded genres - from folk to rock to country - with the glassy resonance...
...have felt right at home at Ravenswood), while Martin Pakledinaz's costumes evoke David Lynch's sanguinary 1984 intergalactic flop, Dune. In the famous mad scene, Lucia's descent into insanity is symbolized by a steep staircase, down which the white-gowned murderess floats like her Nosferatu namesake, Lucy Westenra, Coppola's hot-pants vamp extraordinaire...
...painting is the work of Francis John Clarence Westenra Plantagenet Hastings, Viscount Hastings, son & heir of the Earl of Huntington. A direct descendant of Robert Hastings, steward to William the Conqueror, with ancestral estates in Leicestershire, Lord Hastings finds Britain too expensive, makes his permanent home in the South Seas, at Faretaotootoa, Moorea Island. His family shield is an empty sleeve supported by two man-faced lions. Unlike Diego Rivera who paints meticulously with a camel's hair brush on wet plaster, Hastings uses a spray...
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