The Beauvilles were founded by drummer C. Solomon Holmes and guitarist and vocalist Shawn Kyle in 2002 as a classic rock influenced garage band, later evolving into a group incorporating vintage 1970s aesthetics and early psychedelia into their sound and recordings.

The self-produced Singapore EP was an unexpected success for the group, garnering national media attention, and positive music trade reviews following its recognition by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences or NARAS, as a runner up in the annual Independent GRAMMY Awards for the Southeastern United States, held in Miami, Florida.

[2] This recording opened doors for the group to perform at various music festivals such as SXSW in Austin, Texas, where the Beauvilles were spontaneously photographed for Rolling Stone[3] and interviewed by Erik Olsen, then of the New York Times.

The group went on to be featured on multiple compilations, tour yearly and release an album, Whispering Sin, and go through several line-up changes, with Kyle remaining the only original member, before officially disbanding in 2013.

The Beauvilles' first full-length studio record entitled Whispering Sin, which the group claimed to be an autobiographical document of the influences of constant travel, and the influential vices and scenery of the cities resided in this period,[7] with the album cover art an iconic 1940s Toni Frissell photograph of a woman floating in a lake.

Although the group hoped this to be a breakout moment, their headlining 6th street showcase at the Wave on Saturday March 21 became quickly over capacity, resulting in the fire marshall blocking the doors, refusing any additional entry, resulting in any interested media and industry representatives to stand in the street stories below to listen, or miss the band entirely.

In 2009 and 2010 the group performed the Harvest of Hope Festival put on by No Idea Records sharing bills with The National, Against Me!, Broken Social Scene, Billy Bragg, and Girl Talk among others.

[15] In late 2012, Kyle announced that the Beauvilles would be on permanent hiatus, with members pursuing other projects; Kyle going on to front the bands Florida Kilos, Laurel Canyon and AMFMS,[16] and drummer Norton with ATO records artist Benjamin Booker, and Olivia Jean[17] After a pair of final shows in 2013, it was stated that the group was officially disbanded and would not reform.

[19] In various conflicting interviews over time he and other founding member Craig Holmes have claimed to have come up with the name from a variety of vague sources; cities in Europe, 1950s automobile models, Beauville being his last name because of adoption or losing a card game, a military base that he and other members of the band grew up on in Texas, a French gambling house, a group of southern spiritualists, or the desire to give listeners the idea they had discovered a recording of an obscure band from the 1960s like The Beau Brummels.