HACKLEY, EMMA AZALIA SMITH. Concert singer ( in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; in Detroit, Michigan). Her family moved to Detroit, Michigan, when she was three years old. She first studied piano with her mother, a music teacher; she also studied violin and voice as a child. During her high-school years she played piano with local dance orchestras. She became a member of the Detroit Musical Society and began appearing as a soprano soloist on local recitals at...