Haricharan comes from a Palakkad Iyer family of music connoisseurs where his grandfather P.S. Ganapathy was an organiser of Mic-less Carnatic concerts in the 60s under the name Aalapanaaand his grandmother Smt. Alamelu ganapathy is a national awardee in Mathematics and in the education business for more than 35 years. His father G. Seshadri is a B grade artist through AIR and a bank employee and his mother Latha, a librarian in P. S. Senior Secondary School. Haricharan started learning Carnatic music at an early age of seven under Smt. Sethu Mahadevan and then privileged to learn from stalwarts like K. V. Narayanaswamy, T.M.Prabhavathi and P. S. Narayanaswamy.