It was at the early age of three that Tommy materialized as a promising musician when, in 1997 the hit single 'Bangers and Cash' was finally released. It was composed by Randy Newman and supported by both R Kelly and N Dubz' 'Dappy'. The track was immediately recognised worldwide, resulting in a mass cult following, emanating in Tommy's agent Colonel Sanders (no relation to the creator of KFC) being promptly bombarded with a copius level of requests for a National, European and US tour. The Bower/Richards family soon decided that this was too much for the young toddler to handle - the persistant media and paparazzi surroundings combined with the elaborate singing and dancing lessons - and so the family moved away from Britain. A new life was to begin as his family chose to travel to Chicken, Alaska, to start a new chapter of their lives. Tommy says that growing up in Chicken was the instigator of his Socialist contour following his years spent at the world renowned Communist Chicken School. It was at CCS that Tommy became associates with the likes of Kano and Tinchy Stryder, two characters that Tommy describes today as 'Frivolous yet miraculous in their understanding of social rhetoric.'

The family decided to return from across the pond in early 2005, when Tommy was 11 and the cult following had died down. Tommy spontaneously took up Backflipping for he believed it was an innate ability that he had received from his great grandfather Carlos Javier Hernandez Bower. He was immediately recognised by the East London Backflip Sports Association (ELBSA) in being made Team Captain almost instantly. Following a month and a half of unbeaten competition, Tommy was given the oppurtunity to join the greatly funded Newham Sports Academy, lead by one Britain's most sucessful athletes in History. Despite all this Tommy declined the offer as he told the Newham Recorder: 'An effulgent idea, maximising the potenital of much of Newham's juvenile sportsmen.. I believe that it is faulted in instigating the false perception that by associating yourself alongside, what is essentially an inane feckless organisation, you are thereby 'destined for glory' so to speak, thus relinquishing the support of the ill-funded sportsmen.' Tommy chose to stick to his volunteer coach who had helped him develop and become the newly made favorite for the World Trials six weeks later. However, it was just days after his victory at the trials when Tommy told the papers that his coach Doctor Zeus (Professor of Modern Iberian Studies at UCL) was pushing him 'too hard'. Tommy declined the chance to represent Team GB at the Worlds as he told them: 'I have found a new love - and that is Ultimate Frisby'. His days of Backflipping had come to an end.

It was the ability to balance both education and recreation that drove the Wanstead High School student to the sport. On the 12th July 2006, Tommy competed for the first time on Wanstead Flats breaking the course record. He gained immediate recognition, being headlined in the Wanstead & Woodford Guardian as 'Britian's Greatest Talent since Lil Wayne?' Of course we all know that back in 1952, Lil Wayne was very much a household name as he 'put Britain on the map' in the Ultimate Frisby world after breaking every record the sport offered at the time. Tommy is coached by the youthful, flamboyant Danish coach Nikolas Bendtner. Bendtner left his school in the small town of Ølstykke-Stenløse aged 13, dedicating the rest of his life to Ultimate Frisby. As a youth he achieved national honours to compete in the 1992 World Championships where he finally surpassed the 40 year record set by Wayne. In November 2010, Tommy was interviewed by Time Out where he stated: 'It's Nicolas' creativity that is the genius behind why our group has really ameliorated'.

Tommy only started running as a means of helping him with PE and he doesn't really like it very much.