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U.S. R&B group formed in 1990 in their native Waco, Texas, United States. Members: Tony Thompson, Roderick Clark, Marcus Sanders, Russell Neal, and Toriano Easley. Their first album was self-titled and released in 1990 with production help from [a=Teddy Riley] and certified Gold in the United States. That Hi-Five album featured their biggest hit, "I Like The Way (The Kissing Game)," which also was Gold certified. Easley was later replaced by Treston Irby before the second album. Tony Thompson died in 2007 from a freon overdose after he had been inhaling it from an air conditioning unit. On July 2, 2014, former Hi-Five member Russell Neal was charged with murder, over the fatal stabbing of his wife in Houston. Former member Roderick “Pooh” Clark died on April 17, 2022, at the age of 49