Take a look at Emily Hughes and you see a striking beauty, an air of gracious confidence, and a face that reflects a catalogue of diverse racial credits. The filmmaker’s mother, jazz singer Judi Singh, is largely African-American and East Indian, but there’s a twist of Irish in her roots, too, and her great-grandmother
was Cherokee. Hughes’ father, the late legendary jazz guitarist Lenny Breau, was of French descent, a slim, intense man with handsome features.