Scott Foster Harris, born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Dallas, Texas, became a professional musician at the age of nineteen. While healing from an injury he sustained as a rodeo bull rider, he began writing music and poetry along with a variety of other creative avenues, including acting. Temporarily unable to ride, he began teaching himself to play multiple instruments and, almost immediately, began writing, singing, and performing songs.

Briefly, Harris toured Texas and Oklahoma as a singer/songwriter. He then moved to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue a career as a writer. Once there, he landed a publishing deal with Amylase Music; his earliest songs were cut by artists such as Stephen Cochran, Todd O'Neil and Vinny Van Zant of Trailer Choir. After leaving Amylase he began recording and performing with the rock band Seventy-Seven. However, a short while later he began to create and perform his own music which would eventually become the debut album for Zen Rizing.

He put his band Zen Rizing together and shortly thereafter moved them all out to Los Angeles. Almost immediately they achieved notoriety and success due to accomplishing such feats as winning an LA Music Award for 'rock single of the year' for their tune "Heaven in Your Eyes", establishing a residency at the Whisky a Go Go, receiving airplay on 95.5, opening for Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger of The Doors, and becoming regular fixtures on such stages as The House of Blues and The Roxy.