Before he was HARRY WAS HERE, he was Thoreau, a Denver teenager stacking SoundCloud remixes by the thousand. Before that, he was just a kid who started making beats at ten years old and, by his own account, nearly talked himself into a mechanical engineering degree instead. The pivot from safe bet to full-time artist happened gradually, then all at once, and it left him with something rarer than a rebrand: two working identities that still answer to the same set of hands.
Two Names, One Songwriter
Harry Myers built his first audience as an EDM producer, the kind who lives inside remix culture and lets the streams do the introducing. "First I was an edm dj/producer, then I got sick of that and started making hip hop and recording my own vocals," he told the Los Angeles outlet ShoutoutLA. The 2018 single "In For" marked that first turn, an R&B-inflected sing-rap experiment that Ones To Watch clocked as a clean break from his EDM roots. But hip-hop was a way station too. By early 2020, tracks like "Better Than The Real Thing" and "These Days" were sliding toward something more guitar-driven, more confessional, and the Thoreau name no longer fit what he was making.
So he split the difference. Genius's account of the moment is direct: the song "stay" would be "the start of his alter ego HARRY WAS HERE," a separation kept deliberately intact so remixes and lo-fi work wouldn't crowd out the vocal-forward, indie-facing songs. "After a few years of doing [hip hop], I began pulling from my first musical influences: emo music," he said. "I've always been a guitar player but up until the last few years, it never really found its way into my music."
The Reinvention Single
"stay" premiered through Ones To Watch on October 14, 2020, backed by the Venice-based creator-management outfit UnderCurrent, which billed it as pop sensibility "mixed with the nostalgic vibes of early 2000's pop punk." It was a modest launch for what became a genuinely prolific run: the debut EP If You Only Knew, the 2021 EP era that produced "Pet Giraffe" and "Weight of the World," and eventually the five-part conceptual project Stuck. Run. Sink. Die. The End., released as sequential, lowercase-titled singles across 2023. The Senses Fail connection dates to this same stretch: frontman Buddy Nielsen collaborated with Myers on a Thoreau remix of "Lush Rimbaugh" and later said, "I got a chance to meet and work with Harry, and we collaborated on some really incredible music... I see a very bright future for him and all his projects."
Inside MADKID's Machine
The clearest evidence of where HARRY WAS HERE landed professionally sits on the roster page of Dutch Melrose's independent label, MADKID Records, alongside benny mayne and Pretty Havøc. Three joint singles with Dutch Melrose arrived in the first four months of 2023 alone: "Seasons" in January, "Bonnie and Clyde" in March, and "All Panic No Disco" in April, the kind of release cadence that only happens when two artists share a building and a workflow.
The clearest proof of his role inside MADKID isn't a feature credit. It's a producer credit on someone else's song.
What separates HARRY WAS HERE from a typical labelmate is the production line running underneath the features. He is credited as sole producer on benny mayne's "BLAH BLAH BLAH," the second track on the HOLY TRINITY EP released October 4, 2024, work that sits apart from his own co-billed single with mayne, "DOOMSDAY," and his guest verse on his own "Sink." A separate industry profile via Catalog.works describes more than six years of work "as a producer, writer, engineer, guitar player, and artist," naming credits with Illenium, Mothica, KARRA and AOBeats among others. It is a quietly unusual arrangement: an artist signed to release his own catalog who also sits behind the board for the artist next door.
Home, Wherever the Desert Is
Myers has lived in Los Angeles since the HARRY WAS HERE launch, but his visual and emotional center of gravity keeps returning to Colorado. His Instagram trades in mountain and high-desert imagery, geotagged trips to Moab, and captions like "tbh i only feel alive 300 miles from the closest city." The "Say Shit" visualizer was cut from handheld footage of what he called "a quick trip we sent to colorado," a deliberately unpolished counterpoint to studio gloss. He told ShoutoutLA that most of his time in Los Angeles has been "overshadowed by the pandemic," leaving the mountains, not the city, as the place he keeps pointing his camera.
No single chart placement or viral moment anchors the HARRY WAS HERE story, no Kworb page, no unlocked follower count. What anchors it instead is the discipline of two careers running in parallel: one as the artist writing about depression and imaginary giraffes meant to lift him up, the other as the engineer quietly producing the record next to him. Six years after "In For" first announced a genre pivot, Myers is still doing both jobs at once, and MADKID keeps handing him the keys to prove it.