Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “She was a sweet and warmly beautiful spirit, and all those who knew her are united in loss,” read the statement about her death ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I’ve done many Grateful Dead tributes over the years, and every time I go back to the recordings, Donna Jean is there — ...

Donna Godchaux performing at Santa Barbara Stadium in Santa Barbara, California with the Grateful Dead in June 1978. A rep for Godchaux-MacKay confirmed her death in a statement shared with PEOPLE, ...

Aug. 20—The first time I ever saw the Grateful Dead in concert I had a big surprise coming — an entirely different lineup of the band than I expected. Like for many others, their country-tinged ...

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 ...

The Grateful Dead and its extended family are mourning the passing of Donna Jean Godchaux-Mackay, who holds the distinction of being the only woman to break into the all-male bastion of the Grateful ...

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

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 ...