Singer Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, who helped shape the sound of the Grateful Dead during the 1970s and sang backup on No. 1 hits by Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge, died Sunday. She was 78. The singer ...
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a longtime Bay Area singer who performed with the Grateful Dead in 1970s and also appeared on a number of hit records in the ’60s, has died at the age of 78. The vocalist — ...
The singer died of cancer on Nov. 2 in Nashville Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously appeared in ...
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-MacKay, a famed Grateful Dead singer, has died at 78. Her career included work with Elvis Presley, The Grateful Dead, Cher, and Percy Sledge. “May the four winds blow her safely ...
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a vocalist for the Grateful Dead during the 1970s and backup singer for Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge, has died at the age of 78. Godchaux-MacKay passed away on Sunday ...
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, the only woman to have graced The Grateful Dead's lineup, has died at 78. The singer died at a hospice on Sunday, Nov. 2, in Nashville after a "lengthy struggle with cancer ...
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay’s fondest memories singing with the Grateful Dead included three 1978 shows in Egypt, where they performed in front of the Great Pyramid. “Those were really exciting, ...
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 ...
Vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, who performed with the Grateful Dead in the 1970s, has died. Godchaux died Sunday, Nov. 2, at a hospice facility in Nashville after a "lengthy struggle with cancer ...
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” ...