Lead singer in The Main Ingredient soul group, which had success in the 1970s with "Everybody Plays the Fool" (1972) and "Just Don't Want to Be Lonely" (1974).
In 1995, he remarried his first wife, Shirley, after divorcing her
almost 17 years earlier.
In the summer of 1984 Cuba Gooding released a song called "I've Got The Hots (for you), which was a disco/funk song.