Brave is the third studio album by Australian singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Kate Ceberano

Kate Ceberano

Kate Ceberano is an Australian singer. She achieved success in the soul, jazz and pop genres as well as in her brief forays into musicals with Jesus Christ Superstar and film...

, and was her first solo foray into pop after two previously more adult oriented albums. The album was released in early 1989 by Regular Records. ARIA

Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers which was formed in 1956...

 has certified the album for triple platinum sales in Australia.

Album History

A mix of contemporary pop and dance tracks and soul covers, Brave became a major success in the Australian charts, firmly establishing Ceberano as one of Australia’s premier artists, and would become the most commercially successful album of her solo career.

Brave also established Ceberano's role as a chameleon of sorts, following on from successful jazz and adult oriented releases, Brave seemed to, in part, pay homage to her dance roots as a vocalist in Australian band I'm Talking

I'm Talking

I'm Talking was a 1980s Australian funk-pop rock band, which featured vocalists Kate Ceberano and Zan Abeyratne. They formed in 1983 in Melbourne and provided top ten hit singles "Trust Me", "Do You Wanna Be?" and "Holy Word" and a top fifteen album, Bear Witness, before disbanding in...

, whilst also incorporating more adult oriented fare.

The album spawned a succession of four Top 40 singles; Bedroom Eyes, Love Dimension, Brave/Young Boys Are My Weakness and That’s What I Call Love, all of which achieved strong rotation on Australian radio and helped propel the album to triple platinum status.

Brave went on to become 1989’s fifth highest selling album by a local artist in the ARIA charts. It reached a peak of No.2 on the Australian Album charts.

Overall sales placed it as 1989’s 20th highest selling album of the year.