Raised in studios around Muscle Shoals, Ala., she was with the Grateful Dead for some of its most celebrated—and infamous—eras.
NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...
FILE - Donna Jean Godchaux performs with Dead & Company at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn., on June 12, 2016. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File) (Amy Harris) NEW YORK – ...
Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a former vocalist with the Grateful Dead, has died. She was 78. Godchaux-MacKay died Sunday, Nov. 2, at Alive Hospice in Nashville “after a lengthy struggle with cancer,” ...