THE life of Kidderminster musician Ty Richardson - which featured on national TV this week - can justly be described as a rollercoaster.

He has lost 10 stones in as many months, a feat which won him a spot on the Tricia ITV show; played in front of 50,000 people at a music festival; founded a successful business as a personal fitness trainer; and came back from a spinal injury to forge a new and booming career in the music industry. Ty Richardson in his loft studio.

"I've always written music," says the 26-year-old, who with his brothers in band Indian Summer, appeared with Lionel Ritchie and All Saints at Party in the Park, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, four years ago.

But while Ty was bidding to join the musical greats he was also struggling with a mounting weight problem which had seen his weight balloon from 12 stones at the age of 12 to 20 stones.

He says: "I lost the weight but not the right way. Basically, I did not eat!"

The new slimline Ty found work as a trainer at the Heath Hotel, Bewdley, and soon built up a burgeoning business as a personal trainer.

He developed a business plan with the help of the Prince's Youth Business Trust and Hereford and Worcester Chamber of Commerce but an accident which resulted in a spinal injury left him in a brace and using crutches for six months during which time his clients left just as he was about to go full-time.

The result was a re-think and the construction of a studio in his loft at home. From here, he composes music for TV shows, re-mixes records for up-and-coming bands and runs an agency for musicians looking to break into live work in nightclubs under the name, Musical Visionaries.

In addition, he plays piano live in clubs alongside top DJs such as the Artful Dodger.

"If it were not for the accident I would not be doing what I am doing now," Ty says.

However, his success in shedding the pounds won't go away. Following a short documentary on the Discovery channel, he is due to appear on the Richard and Judy show in the coming months.