….It’s been decades since Ms. Braxton was a meek and malleable college student with dreams of becoming a star, but just because her 1995, self-titled debut sold over ten million copies doesn’t mean that her path to stardom was an easy one. In fact, from the very moment Braxton experienced even a a glimpse of success—the solo deal at LaFace Records that omitted her younger singing sisters—those rose-colored glasses were clouded with a heavy guilt that would take her years to escape: “Through six Grammy Awards. Through sixty million albums sold around the world. Through two humiliating bankruptcies, a heart-wrenching divorce, and an illness that still threatens my life. And at every major milestone along my path, my mother’s admonition echoed in the background: ‘Don’t forget your sisters.'”

Born in Severn with firm roots in Cayce, SC, Toni came of age in the midst of southern traditions, homegrown gardens and women who could make a request for toilet paper sound like a gospel hymn. Daddy Michael and Mommy Evelyn….(click here to read the full-length review at soultracks.com)