The music world mourns a great voice. Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, usually just called Donna Godchaux, died on Sunday, November 2nd, in a hospice in Nashville. The former singer of the psychedelic rock ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, who had been a professional singer in Muscle Shoals, Alabama when she took a ...

Donna Jean Godchaux was on the radio first. Every time a DJ spun Percy Sledge’s “When a Man Loves a Woman” or Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds,” she could be heard singing in the background. But it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay's fondest memories singing with the Grateful Dead included three 1978 shows in Egypt, where they ...

The Grateful Dead and its extended family are mourning the passing of Donna Jean Godchaux-Mackay, who holds the distinction of being the only woman to break into the all-male bastion of the Grateful ...

She helped shape the band’s sound in the 1970s, a decade that took the band to new heights. By Sopan Deb Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a singer who performed on hits such as “When a Man Loves a Woman” ...

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 ...