Ysabella Brave is an American

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and

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signed by

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, a division of the

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. She was discovered through the popularity of her YouTube channels, Ysabella Brave and ysabellabravetalk.

Career

Brave was signed as a recording artist for

, an e-label of the

. Brave is mentioned prominently in the book ''YouTube for Dummies'', written by Doug Sahlin and Chris Botello and published by Wiley Publishing, . Brave is also mentioned prominently in the book ''15 Minutes of Fame: Becoming a Star in the YouTube Revolution'', written by Frederick Levy, . Brave, during her career as a singer, has worked as a fraud analyst for

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and studied at

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. Brave was a finalist in the Miss Horrorfest 2006 contest and has had other show business experience throughout her life.

YouTube videos

Brave is a YouTube personality. She posted the first videos of herself singing on YouTube on July 14, 2006. Most of her songs are accompanied by prerecorded music tracks, but some are

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. Her singing genres include

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, the

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, R&B, and pop music, amongst others, as well as some of her own original lyrics and music. After over a year of regularly posting videos, Brave built up a large following on YouTube. Her Ysabella Brave channel has 21.4K subscribers. Brave's videos were viewed 9.7 million times, as of July 10, 2021. Brave's second YouTube channel, ysabellabravetalk, was created on February 25, 2007, to separate her music and comedy videos from those in which she expresses personal opinions on subjects raised by her viewers, and her

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. The first video on her talk channel was posted on March 4, 2007. As of October 16, 2010, this second channel has 13,701 subscribers. Brave's most popular video is "Everyday Bravery" on her ysabellabravetalk channel. It currently has 828,365 views (August 20, 2013).

References

External links

ysabellabrave at YouTube

ysabellabravetalk at YouTube

"ysabellaART" — Artwork of Ysabella Brave
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Career

YouTube videos

See also

References

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