Ethan “E” Holtz was born in Beverly Hills, California on July 20, 2001. He spent the first year of his life living in the hills of Laurel Canyon not far from Lookout Mountain, which was home and creative inspiration to many young artists during the 1960s-1970s counterculture movement such as Neil Young, Jim Morrison, Jackson Browne, Carole King, Joni Mitchell/Graham Nash and Frank Zappa. Something in the soil must have seeped in, because all these musicians and songwriters would have a significant impact on E’s development as a young artist in the new millennium.