Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay has died at age 78. Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay has died. She ...

Donna Jean Godchaux’s musical family gathered in Petaluma this weekend to celebrate her life through song. Over two nights at the Mystic Theatre, the Heart Of Gold Band reunited with members of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Donna Jean Godchaux performs with Dead & Company at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., on June 12, ...

Having performed with stars like Cher, Boz Scaggs, Joe Tex, and even Elvis Presley, Donna Jean Godchaux proved herself to be a top backup vocalist. But when expanding her career, she stepped from ...

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a soulful mezzo-soprano who provided backing vocals on such 1960s classics as “Suspicious Minds” and “When a Man Loves a Woman” and was a featured singer with the Grateful ...

Donna Jean Godchaux, the soulful voice behind some of the Grateful Dead’s most memorable recordings, has passed away at the age of 78. The Alabama-born singer, who also lent her voice to Elvis Presley ...

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, the celebrated musician and mezzo-soprano who spent the '70s as the Grateful Dead's first and only female vocalist, has died. She was 78. Godchaux died on Sunday at a ...

Donna Jean Godchaux, whose unmistakable voice helped shape two very different corners of American music—Elvis Presley’s soulful pop and the Grateful Dead’s psychedelic swirl—died at a hospice facility ...

In a statement shared with Rolling Stone by her family, Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, after battling cancer, passed away on Sunday, November 2 at a hospice facility in Nashville. Godchaux was 78. “She ...

Her 60-year career included serving as a vocalist during the band’s biggest years in the 1970s and a stint as a Muscle Shoals session singer. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief Donna Jean ...