Hi-Five is an American R<B quintet based out of Waco, Texas who had a string of Top 5 hits in the early and mid 1990s, including the Billboard Hot 100 number one single <#8220;I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)<#8221;. The group, which was formed in 1990, consisted of Tony Thompson, Roderick <#8220;Pooh<#8221; Clark, Marcus Sanders, Russell Neal, and Toriano Easley. Easley was later replaced by Treston Irby.

Hi-Five was signed to Jive Records and released their first album, Hi-Five, in 1990. The album went multi-platinum and was produced by award-winning hitmaker Teddy Riley; it included such singles as <#8220;I Just Can<#8217;t Handle It<#8221;, <#8220;I Can<#8217;t Wait Another Minute<#8221;, and their biggest hit to date, <#8220;I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)<#8221;, which went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and the Billboard R<B chart. The group enjoyed mainstream success and received comparisons to many of their R<B counterparts, namely New Edition.

Hi-Five<#8217;s second LP, Keep It Goin<#8217; On, came out in 1992. Though not as successful as their debut effort, several tracks from this album, including <#8220;She<#8217;s Playing Hard To Get<#8221; and the R. Kelly-penned <#8220;Quality Time<#8221; got major airplay. Shortly after this album was released, Roderick <#8220;Pooh<#8221; Clark was involved in a near-fatal automobile accident. In 1993, Hi-Five emerged with a third album, Faithful, which featured the songs <#8220;Unconditional Love<#8221; and <#8220;Never Should Have Let You Go<#8221;.

After Hi-Five disbanded around 1994, Thompson released a solo album, Sexsational. He scored a minor hit with <#8220;I Wanna Love Like That<#8221;.

In 2005, Thompson re-incarnated Hi-Five with four new members, one of whom is his younger brother, Jordan. Their new album The Return was released in 2006 on Thompson<#8217;s independent label, N<#8217;Depth.

Unfortunately, on June 1st, 2007, the lead singer Tony Thompson was found dead in his apartment at his hometown of Waco, TX, from an overdose of <#8220;huffing<#8221;. During this time, Tony Thompson was working on an arrangement to consolidate the group back all together.

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