In Nashville, Tennessee eventually, really excellent singer's talent starts eliciting curiosity (8)
I believe the answer is:
interest
'curiosity' is the definition.
(I know that curiosity can be written as interest)
'in nashville tennessee eventually really excellent singer's talent starts' is the wordplay.
'nashville tennessee' becomes 't' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'starts' says to take the initial letters.
The first letters of 'eventually really excellent singer talent' is 'erest'.
'in'+'t'+'erest'='INTEREST'
'eliciting' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for interest that I've seen before include "Money paid on a loan" , "Growth on capital sum" , "attention is shown" , "Charge for money borrowed" , "Benefit" .)