Cuba Gooding, Sr., lead singer for the 1970s soul group The Main Ingredient and father to Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding, Jr., has died at the age of 72, he would have been 73 next week.
Gooding was found dead in his car on Thursday (April 20) in a 2012 silver Jaguar in the 22100 block of Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills, California around 1 p.m..
Gooding joined The Main Ingredient in 1971 when the former lead singer Donald McPherson died unexpectedly of leukemia. He had served as a backing vocalist on some of their recordings previously. One of their hit songs was 1972’s…
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