He bought himself a guitar from Spiegel's catalog from money earned by mowing lawns, when he was ten years old, and soon put together a mock band with his sisters as go-go dancers.

[citation needed] During his high school years in the Philippines, Richardson put together his first band Counterclockwise Predicament.

In the mid-seventies he met Aziz Chadley who introduced him to the Reggae sound and soon they put together the band Driftwood (Ronnie Scott, Rudy Chavez, Calvin Lewis, Vinnie I, Aziz Chadley) with Richardson being the main songwriter as well as performing reggae cover songs.

Playing at the original Chuy's in Tempe, in the mid-eighties, Driftwood would hold jam sessions on stage, eventually rebuilding the band and naming it Morning Star (Kurt Moorehead, Spider, Hannes Kvaran, Felix Sainz, Emilio Santiago, Aziz Chadley, Plato T Jones).

The band toured extensively in the US and in three-to-eight week tours during the summer and fall, as a part of the Miller Band Network in 1991 and 1992 including international festivals where they shared the stage with artists such as Carlos Santana, Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, Third World, Steel Pulse, Burning Spear, and more.

With his belief that music is a means of healing for humanity, Richardson reached out to the City of Tempe to create festivals raising money for nonprofit organizations.