Andrew Beck (musician)

Beck's first performing group was called The Moon Monsters, in which he played the tenor saxophone at age 15. He played in multiple rock groups leading up to Imagine Dragons, including the Cubes, the Franchise, Don Juan Triumphant, and other groups in the Utah music scene.

Beck attended university in his home town of Provo.[7] Beck met Dan Reynolds while studying at Brigham Young University[8] and was recruited, along with actress and musician Aurora Florence to fill out Dan's vision for the band. Beck played keyboards, guitar, and sang backup vocals for the first few months of concerts,[9] as well as recorded those instruments on Imagine Dragons' first EP, "Speak to Me" in 2008. Imagine Dragons won two consecutive Battle of the Band competitions together before Beck and Aurora decided to leave the band in late 2008 after Dan decided to go a different direction musically.[10]

Beck currently performs with the psychedelic rock band Day Sounds,[11][12] which released its eponymous EP in October 2019. Beck is lead singer, and plays guitar and keyboard. Co-founder Ben Alvarez plays lead guitar. Beck and Alvarez recruited Alex Bateman to play bass, as well as Reynie Sandoval to play drums.

Beck maintains a career as an illustrator, specializing in editorial [13]illustration[14] and cartooning. He has illustrated for many notable publications, such as [15]GQ magazine, Fast Company, the Boston Globe, Playboy, Vanity Fair, The Wallstreet Journal, [16]Fortune Magazine, [17]the Institutional Investor, [18][19]the Washington Post, NPR, [20]the Penn Law Journal, the Huffington Post, the New York Observer, the Hollywood Reporter, Worth Magazine, Men’s Health Magazine, and Johns Hopkins University among others.