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, the only woman to have graced The Grateful Dead's lineup, died Sunday, Nov. 2, 2025, at 78, according to news reports. Look back at her legendary music career, including here as ...

Donna Jean Phenix was born to John and Myrtle Cook, homesteaders in Wyoming, in 1930. Donna left this world on the morning of April 5, 2025 after a long and interesting life. Donna married Toddy (Ivan ...

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 ...

Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay has died. She was 78. Godchaux-MacKay died on Sunday at Alive Hospice in Nashville, Tennessee, after a lengthy battle with cancer, her family confirmed ...

NEW YORK -- 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 ...

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 ...