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Sean Staples (born 22 September 1976) is an American orchestral composer, songwriter, and producer. He is also the founder and owner of the custom drum and percussion company, Shine Custom Drums & Percussion. He is best known for creating soundtracks for films such as Despite My Spiteful Mind, Dead Story, Darkest Red, South32, The Book of The Damned, Intrusion, The Perception, and as a songwriter of the Flo Rida single "Dancer". Sean has been recognized as a finalist for Outstanding Original Score at the 2018 Burbank International Film Festival.

Life and work
Sean Staples was born in Hayward, California just outside the San Francisco Bay Area and grew up in Santa Rosa, Ca. Sean studied violin via the Suzuki Method at age 8 and ultimately joined the Santa Rosa Prep Orchestra at 11 and began studying violin and viola under the renown violinist Linda Ghidossi-De Luca (Skywalker Symphony Orchestra/The Dixie Chicks). Sean went on to attended college at California State University Sacramento and studied business and music composition. During and after college Sean's focus was on music, playing guitar and writing for the band Shades of Green.

In 2005, Sean founded the popular drum and percussion brand Shine Custom Drums & Percussion, signing artists such as; Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Ludacris, Sly & The Family Stone, The Temptations, Blind Melon, Matchbox 20, Third Eye Blind, Papa Roach, Forever The Sickest Kids, Saosin, Saliva, Hellogoodbye, A Day to Remember and many others. Shine Drums were distributed in 8 countries globally and was recognized as one of the largest and most prolific custom drum manufacturers at the time.

In 2012 Sean turned his focus back toward music, writing library music, trailers, and composing for film and television projects. A few years later, Sean scored his first short film Intrusion (directed by Jonathan Banach) which changed Sean's focus and he began directing his efforts toward film and television opportunities. In 2017 Sean scored his first feature film Dead Story (directed by Suneel Tripuraneni) which was released worldwide in 2017. In 2018 Sean worked jointly on the Amazon series Backlash and features such as Between The Trees and the Eric Roberts film The Perception.

In 2018 Sean was recognized as a finalist for Outstanding Original Score at the Burbank International Film Festival for his score to Despite My Spiteful Mind.