Soul music at its best is a high form of alchemy. The transformation of pain into beauty perseverance into celebration. With her fourth studio album “Reasons To Stay” Tanika Charles demonstrates a new level of mastery mining the depths of a life spent running away from the unfulfilled promises and a broken home to give us her most raw and intimate offering to date. By coming to terms with past trials and ensuing tribulations Ms. Charles delivers a modern Soul classic.