Asian artist taken in lives with priest (7)
I believe the answer is:
israeli
'asian' is the definition.
(Israeli is an example)
'artist taken in lives with priest' is the wordplay.
'artist' becomes 'RA' (Royal Academician, member of Royal Academy of Arts).
'taken in' is an insertion indicator.
'lives' becomes 'is' ('be' can be a synonym of 'live').
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'priest' becomes 'eli' (biblical figure).
'is'+'eli'='iseli'
'ra' inserted within 'iseli' is 'ISRAELI'.
(Other definitions for israeli that I've seen before include "Citizen of a country 'born' in 1948" , "from Mediterranean country" , "Levantine" , "Ali, rise! (anag) - Middle Easterner" , "from part of Middle East?" .)