Yarah Bravo

Yarah Bravo
Yarah Bravo
Background information
Also known as	The Mothergrain; Captain Love Bubble;
Genres	Hip Hop; Rap; Spoken word; RnB;
Occupations	Singer; Producer; MC; Poet;
Instruments	Vocals; Drum Machine;
Years active	2002–present
Labels	Independent;
Website	yarah-bravo.com

Yarah Bravo is a singer-songwriter, rapper, poet and activist. 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 her song Bluebird and her EP Love Is The Movement and Good Girls Rarely Make History album. Bravo was one of the MC's of the group One Self, alongside with MC Blurum 13. Dj Vadim was the founding member of the group. They released their debut album titled Children of Possibility in 2005 on the record label Ninja Tune. And a limited release vinyl titled Organically Grown.

Career

Bravo has collaborated with many artists, including 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 (ex-stylist to Erykah Badu) and fellow hip hop artist Sheila.

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 at age 18. 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.

Present day

In 2017 Yarah fell seriously ill with an Auto immune illness.

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^{[full citation needed]}

The ridiculously cool Yarah Bravo will be on everyone's lips sooner or later – MTV^{[full citation needed]}

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^{[full citation needed]}

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^{[full citation needed]}

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^{[full citation needed]}

It's very experimental, infectiously soulful while having the quirks and perks of quality hip-hop – In The Mix^{[full citation needed]}

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^{[full citation needed]}

References

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