FOR DYLAN BARON, music and visuals have always belonged in the same world. The New Zealand-born artist, who spent his formative years on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, has built a career that moves naturally between both. As a singer-songwriter and Creative Director, Baron writes and produces his own music while also creating the visual identity around it. In Los Angeles, that combination has become the centre of his creative life.

Baron first developed his creative instincts on the Sunshine Coast of Australia. It was there that he began experimenting with songwriting, production, and media, learning how sound and visuals could support each other rather than exist separately. Those early years became the foundation of everything that followed. Long before he moved to the United States, he was already thinking about music not just as something you hear but as something you see and experience.

That path eventually led him to Hollywood, where he continued developing his music education. For many young musicians, the school is a gateway into the Los Angeles music industry. For Baron, it was also his first real exposure to the pace and scale of the city’s creative scene. Being surrounded by artists and producers from around the world pushed him to refine both sides of his work. Music remained the centre, but visual storytelling began to play a bigger role.

Following his studies, Baron became active in Los Angeles’ music scene, where he contributed to the visual direction of various music projects. His work as a creative director has also extended to collaborations with event organizers, contributing to the visual identity of music-focused experiences. More recently, he has been involved in refreshing brand aesthetics, including updated visuals and design direction, as events have continued to grow in scale.

Even while working behind the scenes in music culture, Baron continued writing and producing his own music. Seeing how music travels from studio to stage to audience reminded him of why he started in the first place. The result was a project that felt more personal than anything he had released before.

On February 27, Baron released his EP How To Heal, a record he wrote, produced, mixed, and mastered himself entirely because it was important

for him to see through the whole process on his own in order to make it completely personal. The EP includes the singles What About Us, Abstract Faces, and Girl Like You.

The record was created during a period when his life was changing quickly. Baron describes it as a time when he felt he was shedding parts of himself without yet knowing who he was becoming. In the past, much of his music came from confronting pain directly. While making this project, he realised something different: healing did not require reliving every moment of trauma through music. It was possible to acknowledge the past, learn from it, and move forward without letting it define every creative decision.

Instead of being driven by the need to process pain, the songs reflect a sense of growth and perspective.

Today, his career moves between two connected worlds. As a singer-songwriter, he continues to create and release music under his own name. As a Creative Director, he helps shape the visuals, branding, and experiences that surround music culture in Los Angeles. For Baron, the two are not separate paths but part of the same creative story that began on the Sunshine Coast and is now on the other side of the Pacific.