Richard Avedis Hagopian (born April 3, 1937) is an Armenian-American oud player and a traditional Armenian musician.

[2] At first he was self-taught, and then by invitation he studied Eastern (Ottoman Classical) music theory and oud under the Armenian kanun player Kanuni Garbis Bakirgian.

[2] Hagopian was a founding member of the Kef Time Band, which was formed in 1963 and gained fame in the next few decades.

During this time the leader of the Cleopatra Revue band, Armenian-American dumbeg player Buddy Sarkissian, met Hagopian and immediately hired him after hearing him play the oud and sing.

[4] In the Kef Time series CD reissues a few of the track listings have been rearranged, while certain songs were either placed on different albums or left out altogether.