Zeena LaVey
| Zeena Schreck | |
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Zeena performing at Kantine am Berghain Feb 28, 2016 Berlin, Germany
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Zeena Galatea LaVey |
| Born |
November 19, 1963 San Francisco, California, United States |
| Genres | Electroacoustic music, sound art, field recording, soundscape, minimalism, magic realism, ritual music, experimental, dark ambient, ambient, post-industrial, neoclassical, gothic rock, post-punk |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, songwriter, musician, composer, performance artist, photographer, visual artist, author, animal rights activist, religious teacher |
| Instruments | Vocals, keyboard, Percussion, Flute, Synthesizer, Electronics, Sampling |
| Years active | 1967–present |
| Labels | Gymnastic Records, Unclean Productions, Wolfslair, Inc., Video Werewolf, Musicus Phÿcus, The Epicurean |
| Associated acts | Radio Werewolf, Nikolas Schreck, Christopher Lee, Hisham Bharoocha, John Murphy, NON, Musicus Phÿcus, Cory Vielma, King Dude, Frank Haines, Chris Kachulis |
| Website | zeenaschreck |
Zeena Schreck (born Zeena Galatea LaVey, November 19, 1963), known professionally by her mononymous artist name ZEENA, is a Berlin-based American artist, musician, author, animal rights activist, Tantric Buddhist, and the spiritual leader of the Sethian Liberation Movement (SLM), which she founded in 2002.
Zeena was born in San Francisco, California to Anton LaVey (April 11, 1930 – October 29, 1997), and Diane Hegarty (b. July 10, 1942), co-founders of the Church of Satan. On May 23, 1967, three-year-old Zeena had the first and most highly publicized Satanic baptism in history performed by her father. The ceremony garnered worldwide publicity with a reenactment of the ceremony recorded for The Satanic Mass LP.
Beginning in early childhood, Zeena was subjected to hundreds of journalistic reports and interviews. Due to her parent's frequent coverage in exclusively adult media, Zeena was regularly featured worldwide in tabloid crime and men's magazines as a child. Author and Anton LaVey biographer, Burton H. Wolf described a thirteen-year-old Zeena in his introduction to her father's The Satanic Bible (1976 edition: thirteenth printing, Avon Books) as "Zeena, remembered by people who saw the famous photo of the Satanic Church baptism as a tiny tot, but now a gorgeously developed teenager attracting a growing pack of wolves, human male variety."
She became pregnant at the age of thirteen. She credited learning meditation for getting her through her C-section delivery.
She has one son, Stanton Zaharoff LaVey (b. January 18, 1978) and two half siblings by common father: half-sister Karla LaVey (b. July 31, 1952) and half-brother Satan Xerxes Carnacki LaVey (b. November 1, 1993). Schreck has had no contact with the LaVey family since 1990.
Zeena's work as a photographer, visual artist, musician/composer and writer are heavily influenced by the mystical and magical traditions she has lived and taught. Stylistically, she gravitated at an early age to artists and mentors whose art were also imbued by a mystical or magical vision.
As a teenager and young adult, she trained in and studied theater, drama and film. At sixteen years of age, Zeena passed the High School equivalency exam, which enabled her to leave High School early, begin working legally and enroll in City College of San Francisco, majoring in Drama. In addition to CCSF's Drama Department, she also received instruction from Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Eric Morris acting coach, Viola Spolin's student Marcia Kimmell of The Next Stage Improvisation Theater San Francisco, and the San Francisco School of Dramatic Arts. Her study focus was Hellenic sacred drama, improvisation, and various branches of the Stanislavski 'system' and method acting.
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