Young became particularly associated with the works of George Frideric Handel and was a favorite singer of the composer during the last years of his life.
She was also a part of a well-known English family of musicians that included several professional singers and organists during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
[1] Isabella Young was born in the 1720s or early 1730s but the exact year is now unknown as no record of her birth or baptism exists.
Her Aunt Cecilia (1712–1789), was one of the greatest English sopranos of the eighteenth century and the wife of composer Thomas Arne.
[3] Young studied singing with the bass Gustavus Waltz and she made her professional debut appearing with him in concert on 18 March 1751.