Raised in studios around Muscle Shoals, Ala., she was with the Grateful Dead for some of its most celebrated—and ...

Known as “the first lady of the Grateful Dead,” she died of cancer on Nov. 2 in hospice care in Nashville at age 78.

Eighty years ago today, an award-winning singer/songwriter who began her career as an English teacher was born in North Carolina.

When Maggie Rose took the stage with My Morning Jacket’s Jim James at the MusiCares Persons of the Year gala earlier this year, she understood the assignment: Deliver the timeless Americana of the ...

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 — ...

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, whose voice became entwined with the Grateful Dead’s adventurous sound in the 1970s and whose earlier career saw her singing on soul and rock classics, has died. She passed ...

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a former vocalist for the Grateful Dead and a session singer whose voice graced some of the most iconic hits of the 1960s and ’70s, has died at 78. Her representative ...

WASHINGTON — Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a singer known for working with the Grateful Dead, has died. She was 78. The singer died on Sunday following a "lengthy struggle with cancer," according to ...

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame backup singer for The Grateful Dead in the 1970s who also sang on No. 1 hits by Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge, did Muscle Shoals sessions and ...

Donna Jean Godchaux, best known for singing with the Grateful Dead in the 1970s, has died at 78 years old. As Rolling Stone reports, Godchaux died at a hospice facility in Nashville on Sunday, ...