Born in New York, New York, Cuba Gooding Sr. was a son of Dudley MacDonald Gooding and his wife Addie Alston. Dudley Gooding was a native of Barbados who fled the island in 1936 to Cuba, and met and ...

Cuba Gooding was born in Bronx, New York to Shirley, a singer with the Sweethearts, and Cuba Gooding, Sr., a lead vocalist of soul group The Main Ingredient. He has two brothers, musician Tommy ...

Cuba Gooding Sr., the father of actor Cuba Gooding Jr., was identified Thursday as the man found dead inside a car on Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, officials said.

All the stars lined up, making it what it was," Mason told BET in 2019. Gooding Sr., who died in 2017, was the lead singer of the soul group The Main Ingredient in the '70s.

Gooding’s vocals are sampled by five-time Grammy Award winning Alicia Keys, on her smash single, “You Don’t Know My Name,” which, early in 2004, held the #1 spot on Billboard’s Hot R&B ...

Larry “L.S.” James Smith, age 69, of Ocala, FL passed away unexpectedly on March 30, 2023. Larry was born on April 24, 1953 in Memphis, Tennessee ...

Cuba Gooding Sr., a popular soul singer in the 1970s and father of Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr., died Thursday, according to multiple outlets. He was 72.

Cuba Gooding Sr., the father of actor Cuba Gooding Jr., was identified Thursday as the man found dead inside a car on Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, officials said.

Oscar winning actor and son, Cuba Gooding Jr., joined family members at J. Foster Philips Funeral Home in Jamaica, New York, and attended the funeral service and subsequent entombment.

LOS ANGELES — Cuba Gooding Sr., who sang the 1972 hit “Everybody Plays the Fool,” has died. Authorities say the 72-year-old singer and father of Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr.

Dudley Gooding promised his wife that he would name his first son Cuba. Cuba Gooding Sr.’s father died when he was 11 years old. Gooding’s father was a taxi driver in Manhattan. Cuba Gooding Sr.