Jesse "The Devil" Hughes is an American musician who is best known for his role as frontman of the California-based rock band, Eagles of Death Metal.

Jesse Hughes and Josh Homme formed Eagles of Death Metal in 1998. Hughes credits Homme with saving his life, claiming that during the recording of the second Eagles of Death Metal album he fell into serious drug addiction and that Homme not only drove him to rehab, but paid for it as well.

Hughes is known to go by many different nicknames, including "J. Devil" (or simply "The Devil") as well as Boots Electric and "Fabulous Weapon"

In an interview Hughes revealed that his band mate Josh Homme gave him "The Devil" nickname when he was thirteen.

"I used to get picked on a lot by Karl Doyle" says Hughes, "And when I would get picked on severely, or if it really made a point to me,I would get vengeance, but I would get vengeance in the way that I could, which was mostly clever and all consuming.

"Joshua once witnessed me in the moment I was about to enact vengeance upon someone, and he just said, 'You're the fucking devil dude,' and it stuck."