Shai - If I Ever Fall In Love|REACTION!!! 😳😳

[@fredbennett3549]

Song called (comforter) is my favorite but this is they signature song

[@BrenJen86]

I used to have this song on repeat as well as their song Comforter. They also have an acapella version of this song that people like. Personally I like it with the instrumentation better.

[@tonianthony3292]

Listen to the acapella version. You want be disappointed. 😊😊😊

[@MzColston12]

I second that ❤❤❤

[@gavinwilson7889]

This stayed on repeat and still on my playlist

[@jordansmith4139]

Wow back in the day my brother's blasting this song forever 😂😂 I love this song they was on Family matters episode 🎉🎉

[@curtis75black]

If you watched MARTIN religiously, you heard this song in a Ep. Think back to when GINA & MARTIN broke up. Tommy & COLE took him to the club to get over her.

[@IceManLikeGervin]

A very dope slow jammy jam reaction 😎! I see 👁👁 that you have reacted to Shai before: Comforter and Baby I'm Yours. If I Ever Fall In Love was the lead single from Shai's 1992 debut album :...If I Ever Fall in Love. It was written and produced by Carl "Groove" Martin. The song reached #1 on the R&B chart and #2 on the Hot 100. No info about the music video is available. They actually used to practice singing Boyz II Men songs before they got signed to a record deal. Shai still tours and performs their songs live on stage in 2023. If I Ever Fall In Love has been covered by Pentatonix, UK R&B singer Gabrielle, UK Pop band East 17 and Australian R&B group CDB. Shai Info 📰: Shai is a R&B/soul singing quartet consisting of singers: Garfield Bright born on October 21, 1969 in Nashville, Tennesssee. Marc Gay born on January 21, 1969 in Miami, Florida. Carl "Groove" Martin born on August 29, 1970 in Lafayette, Louisiana. Darnell Van Rensalier born on May 17, 1970 in Patterson, New Jersey. The group met and formed in 1990 on the campus of Howard University in Washington, DC. Marc Gay stumbled upon the name "Shai" in the Egyptian Book of the Dead while looking for a nickname for a fellow fraternity brother. The foursome decided to take the name, which means"personification of destiny," as their own. Taking their new moniker to heart, the group quicklyset out to make themselves stars. Carl "Groove" Martin had written the song "If I Ever Fall In Love" during across-country car trip, and believed the song was an inspired gift. This made the group work even harder to find it a public. "I swear, that song came to me," Martin beamed to People in April of1993. "Here's verse one; here's the chorus; here's verse two ... I didn't think about it. I didn'twrite it down. I didn't do anything. I think God sent it, I really do." With a borrowed 100 dollars, Shai created its first demo tape but was unable to spark the interest of any talent scouts during a promotional visit to New York City. Undaunted, the quartet chose to enter "If I Ever Fall In Love" in a listener's choice contest at Washington, DC radio station WPGC. Although Shai later admitted to supplying several of the requests for the song themselves, the station's disc jockey was bombarded by phone callers. Not only did the song win the contest, but it infiltrated the playlists of WPGC and at sister stations in Houston, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona. Having eluded the usual channels of building success, Shai was quickly courted by Gasoline Alley, a branch of MCA records, with whom the group signed an impressive seven-album contract. Shai released "If I Ever Fall In Love" as the first single from their debut album of the same title. The album peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100 and No. 1 on the R&B charts. The next two single releases from their debut platinum album: "Comforter" and "Baby I'm Yours", each peaked at No. 10 on the Hot 100 and No. 4 and No. 16 on the R&B chart respectively. There was no critical mandate on "If I Ever Fall In Love's" overall merits, but most writers were in accord as to the strength of Shai's sensual vocal talents. "The effect is an intense, intimate emotional atmosphere," Michael Eric Dyson wrote of the album in Rolling Stone. "Shai joins the spiritual yearnings of [vocal contemporaries] Take Six with the secular pull of [Philadelphia soul quartet] Boyz II Men. That tension between desire and fulfillment give's Shai's work a haunting luminescence - and makes for a riveting art." Other critics found that while the group's singing was pleasant enough, the overall strength of their material was an impediment. "Shai ... sing serious, mournful harmonies that work best on ballads like the a cappella (and monstrously successful) title song as well as 'Comforter' and 'Sexual,'" penned Village Voice critic Nelson George in May of 1993. "But Shai's dance music is unconvincing and overall this twelve cut collection is too mellow by far." To Shai's credit, the band did write all of their material, with chief tune smith Carl "Groove" Martin also taking on production duties- something that many of their "neo-doo-wop" contemporaries, such as Color Me Badd, were unable to do. Nonetheless, both "Comforter" and "Baby I'm Yours" also ranked high on more than one chart. Shai capitalized on their national popularity with a number of live performances, including a European tour. Early in 1993, the group was given an impressive invitation to perform at the Presidential Inauguration which Shai accepted. Perhaps equally notable was the group'sperformance in New York City at the Apollo Theater's Hall of Fame all-star concert in June of 1993. Wearing zoot suits in homage to R&B harmonizers of the past, the group delivered a version of "Java Jive," a standard of the vocal quartet the Ink Spots during the 1940s and 1950s. The group's next album release was in 1993: Right Back At Cha, a remix album that largely consisted of new versions of their previous hits as well as a couple of new songs. A completely reworked version of their previous hit "Baby I'm Yours", simply titled "Yours", was released as a single (US No. 63). When the group returned to make their second full length album Blackface, Shai spent a great deal more time to craft their new songs than they had with their debut. "We were rushed on delivering that album "If I Ever Fall In Love", Garfield Bright admitted to JR Reynolds in Billboard in 1995. "Since then, we've really got a chance to get to know each other musically, which helped fine-tune our focus for our album: Blackface, which took nine months to produce." The band concentrated on making a more rhythm-based effort with their second album, as well as on giving it a more adult-oriented appeal. Unfortunately, like many young groups who self-consciously opt for a mature image, Shai suffered in popularity and Blackface was an overall disappointment. Still, the band continued to make music and maintained that the album and its title were a perfect banner for Shai's uplifting "personification of destiny." "The face behind any face is a blank, empty face that you can draw on to obtain peace and creativity," Garfield Bright explainedto JR Reynolds. "There's a potential for everyone to connect. Every creature made up of energy -it's a totally positive vibe. The trick is to connect with it." In 1994, Shai released the song: "The Place Where You Belong", from the Beverly Hills Cop III movie soundtrack. It was the group's final Top 40 single (No. 32 R&B). In late 1995, their follow-up album: Blackface, was released (No. 42 Hot 100 & No. 15 R&B). It featured their final R&B Top 20 single "Come With Me" (No. 43 Hot 100 No. 14 R&B). The 1996 remix, "I Don't Wanna Be Alone" (featuring Jay-Z), peaked at No. 89 on the Hot 100 and No. 51 on the R&B charts. "Song For You" by Rick Braun, featuring Shai, peaked at No. 39 on the R&B chart in 2001. Shai still performs their songs live on stage in 2023. Shai Group Members 👨🏿‍🎤👨🏾‍🎤👨🏾‍🎤👨🏽‍🎤: Marc Gay Garfield Bright Carl "Groove" Martin Darnell Van Rensalier Shai Albums 📀: ...If I Ever Fall in Love (1992) Right Back At Cha (1993) Blackface (1995) Destiny (1999) Back From The Mystery System: The Love Cycle (2004) Love Cycle: Back From The Mystery System (2007) D'n'G Of Shai Worldwide (2008) Musically Yours (2018) Some good Shai songs 🎶: Together Forever, Waiting For The Day, Changes, Sunshine, Mr Turn U Out, I Don't Wanna Be Alone, Lord I've Come, Will I Find Someone, Destiny, Sexual (Tonight Is The Night), Don't Wanna Play, If I Ever Fall In Love (original a ccapella version), He's Doing You Wrong, Sexual, The Place Where You Belong, Show Me Yours, Did You Know, Come With Me, Hard When You Love Someone, Flava and Song For You (w/ Rick Braun). Fun Fact 🕵🏾: "If I Ever Fall In Love" spent eight weeks at number two on the Hot 100, which at the time was the second-most number of weeks that a song held the position without topping the chart, behind Foreigner's "Waiting For A Girl Like You".

[@NorthPhilly-zr7xc]

This was back when us young men new how to talk to woman , we use to have to step up are romance game

[@MightMouse2174]

I remember on WPGC they played the acapella version of this on a Smash or Trash type segment against other songs and this keep on winning until they got signed

[@Wonderwoman79G]

You should check out the other version of this song. It is just as good.

[@vincew4297]

The a cappella version is better lol

[@davidbarnes1113]

Well bout time! I😂 I suggested this one months ago. Glad you finally got to it . Please do “I Don’t Ever Want To See You Again “ by Uncle Sam. You will like it trust me.

[@blindbeautyblindgirlmagic3166]

Yes! I requested that song as well lol can’t wait till she does it

[@Sheraytv]

I actually did that one but then it got blocked

[@blindbeautyblindgirlmagic3166]

@@Sheraytv dang, oh well, keep doing your thing, love your channel💜

[@julianherod3293]

Gotta do the a cappella version to this so much better

[@slappyslapstick4045]

I went to college with these cats.

[@fredbennett3549]

It was groups before boys to men that had harmony but they broke up for whatever reasons, harmony was around for many many years before new edition and boys to men.

[@desmondmaldonado6466]

Shai is in my top 5 rnb groups all time. I was always partial to the acapella version on this. Even though this is the jam, they showed their vocals better on the acapella version. Imo. Great reaction.

[@fredbennett3549]

This was one of the boys to men before boys to men back then, this group and the group take 6. they had broke up and got back maybe broke up again, but they was before boys to men

[@PoppaSmurff]

The lighter one (garfield) is a college professor. Not sure of the others

[@MzColston12]

Wow that's awesome Go Garfield he was my of the group ❤❤

[@shante70sb]

Garfield was FINE 😊 back then...

[@slaughterkingsavage4242]

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[@jasondawson92]

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