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Cuba Gooding Sr. was an American singer.[1]
Cuba Gooding was born in New York City in 1944. He was the son of Dudley Gooding and Addie Alston. He married Shirley Sullivan in 1968 in New York.[2] They divorced in 1985,[3] but remarried in 1995[4] and remained married until his death. They had four children.
He died in Woodland Hills, California in 2017 and is buried inTrinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum in Manhattan.[5]
Cuba was the lead singer of the soul group The Main Ingredient, most notable for its two biggest hits, "Everybody Plays the Fool" (1972) and "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely" (1974).
He had a brief solo career on Motown Records during the late 1970s and early 1980s. His biggest international success was Brian Auger's "Happiness Is Just Around the Bend" in 1983, which has in recent times been sampled by several R&B artists, as well as hitting the charts again as a remix by UK Hardcore Rave group Altern-8 in 1991. In the same year, samples from the song also featured prominently in Bizarre Inc's single "Playing With Knives".
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