French Protestant to embrace new tune about love (8)
I believe the answer is:
huguenot
'french protestant' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'embrace new tune about love' is the wordplay.
'embrace' becomes 'hug' ('hug' can be a synonym of 'embrace'**).
'new' indicates anagramming the letters.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'love' becomes 'o' (In tennis, 'love' means 'zero').
'tune' with letters rearranged gives 'uent'.
'uent' enclosing 'o' is 'uenot'.
'hug'+'uenot'='HUGUENOT'
'to' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for huguenot that I've seen before include "Persecuted French protestant" , "French Protestant who may have emigrated to Ireland in 17th century" , "C16-17 French Protestant" , "Historically, a French protestant" , "This French protester" .)