Cuba Gooding, Sr. (born April 27, 1944 in New York City, New York) is an African-American soul singer, lead singer of soul group The Main Ingredient. His group is most notable for their two biggest hits, "Everybody Plays the Fool" (1972) and "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely" (1974). He also had a brief solo career on Motown Records during the late-1970s.

Gooding and his wife, singer Shirley Gooding, are the parents of actors Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Omar Gooding, and later became a minor actor himself.

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