The Beloved

Our band name is The Beloved. We have been playing together for about a year now and things have really takin off fast. Our story is kind of funny. Our lead singer Josh Cary had been working on a single acoustic project for about two years. He then met our guitarist Mike Courtney at church, who had played heavy metal his entire life, and asked him if he wanted to do an acoustic project with him. After playing together for a little while, they walked into applebees restaurant one night and their waitress (Samantha Crowe-vocals) overheard them talking about the project and asked them if she could come and sing at one of their practices. They both really dug her sound and kept her on board. Then one of the practice nights, josh and mikes good friend Aaron Bishop who played the drums came to hear them play. Her really liked the sound, so he got out the congos and started playing. They all immediately locked together and made a sweet sound, so they started to play alot of acoustic shows together. Then one night at practice they decided to start writing some harder rock songs with the electric since they had a full band. They then starting getting offers to play all over the place and people kept on nagging at them because they wanted a c.d., so they recoreded their first C.D. called More. Some of their big influences come from bands such as, saosin, anberlin, switchfoot, sleeping atlast, and paramore. Music is the passion of every single member of The Beloved and they would do it 24/7 if they could!