Cuba Gooding Sr.

Born in New York City, New York, Gooding is a son of Dudley MacDonald Gooding and his wife Addie Alston. The elder Gooding was a native of Barbados who fled the island in 1936 to Cuba, and met and married a woman there. When she was murdered because of their affiliation with Pan Africanist leader Marcus Garvey, Dudley Gooding promised his wife on her deathbed that he would name his first son Cuba. His father died when Cuba was eleven years old.
Gooding and his wife, singer Shirley Gooding, are the parents of actors Cuba Gooding, Jr., Omar Gooding, April Gooding and musician Tommy Gooding. Gooding, Sr, later became a minor actor himself.
In one of Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s movies (Radio), there is a scene where "Radio" is listening to The Main Ingredient.
Gooding released a single called "Politics" in September 2007. He also is developing a film project called Everybody Plays the Fool: The Cuba Gooding Story. The film highlights three generations of the Gooding Family: Dudley "Cuba" Gooding, Cuba Gooding, Sr., and Cuba Gooding, Jr.
On the Boat Trip DVD trivia track, it was stated that he was going to appear in the 2003 romantic-comedy The Fighting Temptations which stars his son Cuba Gooding, Jr. but he is not in the movie.
In 1999 he, along with Mark Yardley and David James wrote the international house hit, Back and Forth by the Supakings.
Cuba was added by popular demand to the “Beach Music Super Collaboration CD" performing the Charles Wallert composition, "Meant To Be In Love". This has led to the duo’s current project, “Never Give Up”, which debuted at the 2009 presidential inauguration. Cuba records for Bluewater Recordings (bluewaterrecordings.com). Hide