Rolling Stone

Grateful Dead Honor Donna Jean Godchaux’s ‘Unmistakable Voice and Radiant Spirit’

The Grateful Dead celebrated Donna Jean Godchaux’s “unmistakable voice and radiant spirit” in a tribute posted following the singer’s death at the age of 78. In a post shared on the Dead’s official ...
People

Grateful Dead Singer Donna Jean Godchaux, Who Also Sang on Elvis Presley's 'Suspicious Minds,' Dies at 78

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 ...
PBS

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead singer, dies at 78

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 ...
Mercury News

Grateful Dead vocalist, who sang on big Elvis hit, dies at age 78

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 — ...
USA Today

Donna Jean Godchaux, the Grateful Dead's first lady, dies at 78

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 ...
The New York Times

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead Singer, Dies at 78

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” ...
Variety

Donna Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead Singer, Dies at 78

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 ...
New York Post

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead singer, dead at 78

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 ...
Rolling Stone

Grateful Dead Singer Donna Jean Godchaux Dead at 78

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, who spent the Seventies singing with the Grateful Dead, sang backup on several classic Sixties hits, and fronted her own bands, has died. She was 78. Godchaux died Sunday ...