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Gooding, an American rock band is based out of Nashville, Tennessee but spends half the year touring. Gooding, the band, began their formation when Steven (Gooding) Gooding was 12 and moved to Wichita, Kansas and soon after met Drummer Jesse Rich. Many years later at Kansas University Gooding and Rich, met Billy Driver their soon to be bass player. Since the late 2000's they have had two fourth members, first Jenny Wood, and currently Erin O'Neil, both whom were featured on guitar and vocals.

Members

 * Steven Gooding - Front Man, Lead Guitar, Vocals
 * Jesse Rich - Drums
 * Billy Driver - Bass, Vocals
 * Erin O’Neill - Guitar, Vocals

Causes & Funding the Future
In Recent years Gooding has made it apart of their tours to contribute back to the communities that they have received help from in the past, from Military Bases to Walter Reed Hospital. In recent years Gooding has worked to create Funding the Future LIVE, a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to teaching and inspiring kids to be come financially literate. Gooding has performed at over 80 high schools and at the Conference of World Affairs for 4 years. As a result in their contributions they were invited for a private tour of the white house.

Media
In April of 2015 Gooding was featured in the Wall Street Journal as being praised as a "Trojan house" of financial literacy.

Music
The music of Gooding has been featured in over 200 films, Johnny Cash Walk the Line, Ice Age 2, Iron Man 2, TV Shows; CSI, Portlandia, Cold Case, Numbers, The Closer, Katie, The Good Wife, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, video games and commercials for; Dodge, Jeep, Chrysler, Marriot, Adobe and Cisco. Their Singles "Mountain" and "Hey Hey" reached top 50 in the AAA charts