Brave was signed as a recording artist for
Cordless Recordings, an e-label of the
Warner Music Group. Brave has worked as a
fraud analyst for
Yahoo! and studied at
San Jose State University. She was a finalist in the
Miss Horrorfest 2006 contest and has had other show business experience.
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
a cappella. Her singing genres include
blues,
jazz, the
Great American Songbook,
rock,
soul, R&B, and pop music, amongst others, as well as some of her own original lyrics and music. 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
vlogs. 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, . ==See also==