Beautiful Creatures (sometimes abbreviated as BC) is an American hard rock band formed in 1999[1] by guitarist DJ Ashba and singer Joe Lesté of Bang Tango.
Previously the group featured Michael Thomas and Glen Sobel among others while founder DJ Ashba is currently the lead guitarist for Sixx:A.M. To date, Beautiful Creatures have released two albums – Beautiful Creatures (2001); Deuce (2005) and have had songs featured on soundtracks for films such as Valentine, Rollerball, The Proposal and also for television series such as Smallville and Sons of Anarchy.
In 1999, BulletBoys guitarist DJ Ashba and Bang Tango singer Joe Lesté formed the group adding former Shake The Faith bassist Kenny Kweens along with session drummer Anthony Focx.
[3] The band were then signed to Warner Bros.[1] and released self-titled debut Beautiful Creatures, produced by Marilyn Manson cohort Sean Beavan, on August 14, 2001.
[16] Despite the losses the band regrouped adding lead guitarist Alex Grossi and drummer Matt Starr[1] and began recording material for the follow-up to their self-titled debut.
[22] After signing a deal with Perris Records for a European release of Deuce in 2006,[23] the band embarked on a UK headlining tour with Stephen Pearcy of Ratt.
[27][28] The band played a show on Valentine's Day with Faster Pussycat[29] then in April were announced as one of the acts appearing at Rocklahoma 2008 on Sunday, July 13.
[31] In March 2009, drummer Timmy Russell departed the band to join Burn Halo fronted by former Eighteen Visions frontman James Hart.
[32] On March 24, it was announced that the song Freedom from Deuce would appear in the romantic comedy film The Proposal, starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, as well as on the official soundtrack.
This prompted numerous online rumours that the singer was "on his deathbed" but these were soon quashed by guitarist Alex Grossi: 'In response to the dozens of phone calls, text messages and e-mails regarding Joe LeSte, I would like to squash any rumors that he is dead or even close to it.
Joe was indeed taken to the hospital on Wednesday evening right before a Bang Tango performance that was set to take place at The Portage Theater in Chicago.