Sean Yseult

Guitarist

Birthday June 6, 1966

Birth Sign Gemini

Birthplace Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Age 57 years old

Nationality United States

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1966

Sean Yseult (born Shauna Reynolds; June 6, 1966) is an American rock musician who currently plays bass guitar in the band Star & Dagger.

1980

She has played various instruments with different bands since the mid-1980s, and is best known for playing bass in White Zombie.

Her parents were both college English professors.

Her mother, Ann Reynolds, taught the poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer, while her father, Michael South Reynolds, was an authority on the life of Ernest Hemingway.

The atmosphere in the family home was bohemian, with artists and scholars gathering for deep conversation and socializing.

Yseult's parents took her and her sister to many artistic events.

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.

It was at Parsons where she met eventual bandmate and boyfriend Rob Zombie.

1995

She formed the Famous Monsters in 1995 which also featured Katie Lynn Campbell, bassist for the Toronto-based C'mon.

1996

In 1996, she participated along with Jay Yuenger in the tribute band to the Germs called Ruined Eye.

Yseult moved to New Orleans in 1996, after White Zombie disbanded.

1998

Yseult played bass in White Zombie for 11 years before they disbanded in 1998.

After the breakup of White Zombie in September 1998, Yseult started playing bass for the band Rock City Morgue.

2002

With her husband, in 2002 she founded, then ran, a dive bar popular among artists and musicians, The Saint, in New Orleans's Garden District.

She began showing her photography in galleries in 2002.

2006

In 2006 Yseult briefly played bass for and toured with The Cramps.

In 2006, she began a design line 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.

2008

She married Supagroup musician Chris Lee on January 12, 2008, in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she lives.

2010

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.

2011

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."

2018

In 2018, Yseult debuted a photography exhibit, titled "They All Axed for You", at the Boyd Satellite Gallery in New Orleans.