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 was found dead in a car Thursday in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles.
Coroner’s Assistant Chief Ed Winter says the cause of death is under investigation, but drug paraphernalia and alcohol were found in the car parked on a busy street.
The elder Gooding rose to fame for “Everybody Plays the Fool,” which he sang with the rhythm-and-blues group The Main Ingredient. The song helped the family move from the Bronx to Southern California.
Cuba Gooding Sr’s own father fled Barbados and went to Cuba — hence the name of his son — before becoming a taxi driver in Manhattan.
An email message to Gooding Jr’s agent was not immediately returned.
Met! Me had to go review Barbados a while ago.
The reporter need fi go back inna him father balls because him write the part bout the man migration as if Barbados did a go through something so awful him “fled”.
This is what will become the footnote of many foreigners in amerikkka, sadly.
Like Michael Jordan father ….
omg I saw him last yr at constant spring golf club along with the 3 degrees for mothers day, So sad, He was joking during the show how he was on the plane with the P.M. and was saying how the officers was serious. audience did not like it at all, the man right fi fled Barbados for it no tan good and look how dem a treat we, them still cant walk eena jamaica old shoes
very snazzy silver car he passed in,PP lol a only ja we can fled yes lot of us fled some in boat, how did tesha mek such a big mistake in doin that form top him write him name ten battam him write the run wey name dwllll big mistake wonder a foo fa birth papas him using, a so when uu go embassy dem tel u that u was in merica already nuff people it happen to