Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a singer who performed on hits such as “When a Man Loves a Woman” by Percy Sledge and helped ...

MacKay, a vocalist for the Grateful Dead during the 1970s and backup singer for Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge, has died at ...

Donna Jean Godchaux, a backup singer for The Grateful Dead who also sang on No. 1 hits by Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge, died November 2 of cancer at 78.

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, who sang with the Grateful Dead in 1970s as well as appeared on a number of hit records in the ...

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, former lead singer of the rock band Grateful Dead, died on Sunday, November 2, 2025. She was 78.

A singer in a legendary rock band is dead at age 78. Donna Jean Godchaux-McKay, who performed with the Grateful Dead in the 1970s, died Sunday at a hospice facility in Nashville, Tennessee, according ...

Today in Music History for Nov. 4: In 1740, English clergyman Augustus Toplady, who wrote the hymn "Rock of Ages," was born. In 1847, composer Felix Mendelssohn died at Leipzig at age 38.