Born in Oakland, CA, Ezra Barany first expressed his love for music when, as a toddler, he would climb on top of the upright piano to reach the record player and play his favorite records. Wearing only diapers, he bounced to the music on top of the closed piano and if anyone in the room spoke, he removed his pacifier and shouted, "Quiet!"

Ezra went to CSU Northridge to study classical composition in September 1987. But it wasn't until after he finished his Bachelor of Arts degree in music that he received what he calls his true "musical education."

The power of music was finally laid out clearly for Ezra when he attended the Dick Gove School of Music from 1993 to 1994. Here was where he learned how to write many different styles of music, such as big band, funk, pop, latin, broadway, dixie, as well as others.

His music can be described as romantic pop and fun rock with intelligent lyrics. Mix the vocal harmonies of the Beatles with the orchestration of Elton John and the lyric