{{short description|American bassist (born 1966)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2015}} {{Use American English|date=August 2022}}
{{Infobox musical artist |name = Sean Yseult |background = non_vocal_instrumentalist |image = Rock City Morgue - Sean Yseult.jpg |caption = Yseult performing in 2010 |birth_name = Shauna Reynolds |alias = |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|6|6}} |origin = North Carolina, United States |genre = {{hlist|Alternative metal|thrash metal|surf rock|punk rock}} |occupation = Bassist |years_active = 1985–present |label = |past_member_of = White Zombie |current_member_of = Star & Dagger }}
'''Sean Yseult''' ({{IPAc-en|ɪ|ˈ|s|ɔː|l|t}} {{respell|iss|AWLT}}; born '''Shauna Reynolds'''; June 6, 1966) is an American rock musician who currently plays bass guitar in the band Star & Dagger. She has played various instruments with different bands since the mid-1980s, and is best known for playing bass in White Zombie.
== Early life and education== Her parents were both college English professors.<ref name=Xia>{{Cite web |title=For Sean Yseult And Husband, New Orleans Means Much More |url=https://stuffsthatmatter.com/popculture/sean-yseult-husband-new-orleans |access-date=2021-08-21 |website=Stuffs that Matter |language=en-us |date=2021-05-27 |first=Samantha |last=Xia}}</ref> Her mother, Ann Reynolds, taught the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, while her father, Michael S. Reynolds, was an authority on the life of Ernest Hemingway.<ref name=Xia/>
The atmosphere in the family home was bohemian, with artists and scholars gathering for deep conversation and socializing.<ref name=Xia/> Yseult's parents took her and her sister to many artistic events.<ref name=Xia/>
Before her days as a bassist, Yseult studied fine art and ballet while attending North Carolina School of the Arts for high school. She moved to New York City and earned her degree in graphic design at Parsons The New School for Design.<ref name="interview">{{cite web |author=Rock Book Show |date=August 3, 2011 |title=Sean Yseult Interview "I'm in the Band: Backstage Notes From The Chick In White Zombie |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_buvM6SrY0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/y_buvM6SrY0 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |publisher=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}</ref> It was at Parsons where she met eventual bandmate and boyfriend Rob Zombie.
==Career== ===Early career / White Zombie=== Yseult played bass in White Zombie for 11 years before they disbanded in 1998.<ref name="crusher" /> In 1996, she participated along with Jay Yuenger in the tribute band to the Germs called Ruined Eye. After the breakup of White Zombie in September 1998, Yseult started playing bass for the band Rock City Morgue. She formed the Famous Monsters in 1995 which also featured Katie Lynn Campbell, bassist for the Toronto-based C'mon.
===Post-White Zombie===
In 2006 Yseult briefly played bass for and toured with The Cramps.<ref>{{cite web |title=Former White Zombie Bassist To Tour With The Cramps |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/former-white-zombie-bassist-to-tour-with-the-cramps/ |website=Blabbermouth |date=2006-10-02}}</ref>
On November 1, 2010, Yseult released ''I'm in the Band'', a book containing tour diaries and photos as well as detailing her eleven years spent as a member of White Zombie.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.seanyseult.com/books-1/ |title=Books ''I'm in the Band'' |work=Sean Yseult Photography |first=Sean |last=Yseult |date=2016-07-02}}</ref>
When ''Rock N Roll Experience Magazine'' asked Yseult in 2011 why she was not involved in the White Zombie box set her reply was, "It was a little bit of a fuck you to me & J. which was kinda weird since we were 2/3rd's of the band but anyways."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rocknrollexperience.com/news/53/19/Sean-Yseult---Interview-2011/d,interviews/ |website=Rock -N- Roll Experience |title=Sean Yseult - Interview 2011 |first=Bob |last=Suehs |date=2011-03-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423181955/http://rocknrollexperience.com/news/53/19/Sean-Yseult---Interview-2011/d,interviews/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-04-23}}</ref>
==Personal life== Yseult was in a relationship with fellow White Zombie co-founder Rob Zombie from 1984 to 1991, after meeting at Parsons School of Design. The two continued to work together after the breakup. Yseult moved to New Orleans in 1996, after White Zombie disbanded.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-02-23 |title=AOS Presents: Sean Yseult – Artist, Designer, Musician, Photographer and former bass player of the multi-platinum rock band White Zombie. |url=https://architectofsound.wordpress.com/2017/02/23/aos-presents-sean-yseult-artist-designer-musician-photographer-and-former-bass-player-of-the-multi-platinum-rock-band-white-zombie/ |access-date=2021-08-21 |language=en |website=Architect of Sound |author=aos}}</ref> She married Supagroup musician Chris Lee on January 12, 2008, in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she lives.<ref name="crusher">{{cite web |url=http://www.crushermagazine.com/features12_08/featwhite_zombie_sean.htm |title=White Zombie: Sean Yseult |work=Crusher Magazine |access-date=2011-09-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110913081234/http://www.crushermagazine.com/features12_08/featwhite_zombie_sean.htm |archive-date=2011-09-13 |first1=Morgan Y. |last1=Evans |first2=Sean |last2=Yseult }}</ref> With her husband, in 2002 she founded, then ran, a dive bar popular among artists and musicians, The Saint,<ref name="crusher" /> in New Orleans's Garden District.<ref>{{Cite web|title=About|url=http://www.seanyseult.com/about|access-date=2021-08-21|website=Sean Yseult Photography|archive-date=August 12, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220812224120/http://www.seanyseult.com/about|url-status=dead}}</ref>
She began showing her photography in galleries in 2002. In 2006, she began a design line<ref>{{cite web |title=Sean Yseult Designs |url=https://yseultdesigns.com/ |website=Sean Yseult Designs |first=Sean |last=Yseult}}</ref> featuring wallpaper, pillows, scarves with her hand drawn graphics. Gallery shows include exhibitions in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Yseult has also been a member of The Rawk Show – Fine Art by Musicians, in Texas among other shows. In 2018, Yseult debuted a photography exhibit, titled "They All Axed for You", at the Boyd Satellite Gallery in New Orleans.<ref>{{cite web |title=Former White Zombie Bassist Sean Yseult Talks About Her New Photography Show |url=https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/former-white-zombie-bassist-sean-yseult-talks-about-her-new-photography-show-they-all-axed-for-you |website=Guitar World |first=Richard |last=Bienstock |date=2018-10-19}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category}} * {{Official website}} * [http://www.yseultdesigns.com/ Sean Yseult designs] * [https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/fashion/weddings/03vows.html?ref=weddings New York Times Vows Column, February 3, 2008] * [http://rockbookshow.com/rock-book-show/rock-book-show-interview-sean-yseult-im-in-the-band-backstage-notes-from-the-chick-in-white-zombie.html RockBookShow interview about Sean's Book, "I'm in the Band"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054754/http://rockbookshow.com/rock-book-show/rock-book-show-interview-sean-yseult-im-in-the-band-backstage-notes-from-the-chick-in-white-zombie.html |date=March 4, 2016 }}
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