The German-born Israeli baritone, Günther [Günter] Reich, was born to a Jewish family, which left Germany in 1934 and emigrated to Israel. There he operated in different occupations and finally began to study singing. Originally he believed to possess a tenor voice but since 1958 he was finally trained as a baritone at the College of Music in Berlin by Sengeleitner, and by Unold in Mannheim.