Tony Thompson of US r&b boyband Hi-Five has died at the age of 31 from a suspected drugs overdose. The singer passed away in his home town of Waco in Texas, where, according to reports, he was found unconscious outside an apartment complex.
Hi-Five signed to Jive Records back in 1990 and subsequently achieved a string of top five US hits. The group split in 1994, and Thompson went on to release a solo album the following year. It was to be his only solo album. He attempted to reform Hi-Five in 2005 with a different line-up that included his younger brother Jordan, and although they released an album in 2006 it met with little success. He was known to be working on new material at the time of his death.