Yarah Bravo

Yarah Bravo is a singer-songwriter, rapper, poet, beatmaker. Bravo was born to a Chilean mother and a Brazilian father, who came to Sweden as political refugees. She sings and raps in English, Swedish and Spanish. She is most known for the song Bluebird with the group One Self and for her EP Love Is The Movement and Good Girls Rarely Make History Mixtape. Bravo was one of the founding members of the group One Self, alongside Dj Vadim and Mc Blurum 13. Their debut album was released in 2005 titled Children of Possibility on the record label Ninja Tune.

Yarah Bravo
Background information
Also known as
  • The Mothergrain
  • Captain Love Bubble
Genres
Occupation(s)
Instruments
  • Vocals
  • Drum Machine
Years active2002–present
Labels
  • Independent
Associated acts
Websiteyarahbravo.com

Career

Bravo has collaborated with many artists, including Fat Freddys Drop, French experimental hip hop group TTC (Big Dada) and Polish Jazz duo Skalpel (Ninja Tune), Gavlyn, Organized Threat, Fat Freddy's Drop, The Polish Ambassador, Mykah 9, Abstract Rude, Aceyalone, Figub, Miss ill, The Electric, The Nextmen, Rodney P, Dynamite Mc, and Kidkanevil, Anna The Unused word. Yarah Bravo has toured the world several times with different artists and constellations. And performed at many festivals including Roskilde, Splash Festival, Fusion Festival, Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Festival-Sète, Soundwave Croatia, Electric Castle. In 2011 Yarah went into fashion for a short period of time and opened a pop up boutique shop "The Captain Love Bubble" in London, Shoreditch, together with Mimi Fresh (stylist to Erykah Badu) and fellow hip hop artist Sheila Mukasa.

Early days

Yarah Bravo formed her first group at 16 years old: it was an all-girl group called B.o.B. She moved to London as a teenager. Yarah has throughout her career focused on highlighting other female talents and has many times had an all-female band on stage, bringing together up and coming artist for international tours. In 2008 she curated U.N.I.T.Y the all-female stage at Hip Hop Kemp Festival, with Roxane Shante, Bahamadia, Invincible, Dj Shorty, Stacy Epps, Eternia, Cleo Missaoui, Syster Sol, Vaitea, Darshania and others.


Discography

Studio albums
  • Children Of Possibility (Ninja Tune 2005)
  • One Self – Organically Grown (Mothergrain Records / OGS 2006)
  • Good Girls Rarely Make History (Mothergrain Records, 2008)
  • Love Is The Movement (Duzz Down San, 2014)

Singles
  • Be Your Own (Ninja Tune, 2005)
  • Bluebird (Ninja Tune, 2005)
  • Paranoid / Over Expose (Ninja Tune, 2005)

Collaborations
  • Skalpel feat Yarah Bravo – Voice of Reason (Ninja Tune)
  • Dj Vadim feat Yarah Bravo – The Pacifist (Ninja Tune)
  • Dj Vadim feat Yarah Bravo – She Who Is Tested (Ninja Tune)
  • Dj Vadim feat Yarah Bravo – Cum Shots (Ninja Tune)
  • Dj Vadim feat Yarah Bravo – You are Yours (Ninja Tune)
  • The Electric feat Yarah Bravo – Beautiful (BBE Records)
  • The Polish Ambassador feat Yarah Bravo – Nobody's Alone
  • Paco Mendoza feat Yarah Bravo – Candela

Music videos

Press quotes

In the words of Eric B and Rakim – "It ain't no joke". Super individualistic piece of futuristic psychedelic Hip Hop soul – DJ

The ridiculously cool Yarah Bravo will be on everyone's lips sooner or later – MTV

Yarah swaggers with an irrepressible confidence that would charm the coldest of Hip Hop headz. Her cheeky beauty doesn't hurt, but really it is her ability to connect with the audience that impresses most – HIP HOP CONNECTION

The real attraction of One Self is Yarah Bravo. Her voice is rich and deep, tangy and sweet. By turns she is fearless femme cee, jazz poet and sultry seductress. Like all great vocalists, notes not words are her primary tools for communication. On her lips a shopping list would sound profound and moving – BBC

Yarah Bravo, a feisty, sharp, young woman blessed with that soul power voice, amazing stage presence rapping, singing, rhyming with intellect and jazzual spirit in her voice – Straight No Chaser

It's very experimental, infectiously soulful while having the quirks and perks of quality hip-hop – In The Mix

If the music industry was true and just, and not the poisoned and corrupt industry bound to the brain washed tastes of the mindless majority then she would be a number one hit record – Soul Generation

References
    • "Interview with Yarah Bravo". indigits.net. 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2014.
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