Toronto soul singer Tanika Charles ready to explore with Polaris Artist Residency at National Music Centre
(WorldNews Music)

Turkish psychedelic rock is not the first genre or geography that springs to mind when listening to Tanika Charles’s newest record, 2019’s The Gumption. In fact, it would take an extremely dedicated musicologist to detect even the slightest hints of these strains coursing through the soaring soul-pop of Going Home, the Motown sass of Love Overdue or sultry grooves of Cadillac Moon. But the Edmonton-born, Toronto-based singer says her listening habits while on the road touring her debut full-length, 2017´s Soul Run, were all over the map. They veered from more obvious influences such as Alabama Shakes to 1990s southern rockers The Black Crowes to Turkish acts whose names Charles...