Rich Harpur was born in Cape Town in 1994, at the age of 7 his family moved to Meggen in Lucerne. When he was 5, his father gave him a guitar for the first time and his little hands grew more and more with his instrument. After completing a degree at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Rich switched to the Zurich University of the Arts in order to pursue a career as a jazz musician. With various projects such as the Duo Rich and Lea, Rich's Brew, or as a sideman of Florian Fox, Rich can be heard on numerous stages throughout Switzerland.