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 ...

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, whose unmistakable voice helped shape two very different corners of American music—Elvis Presley’s soulful pop and the Grateful Dead’s psychedelic swirl—died at a hospice facility ...

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 ...