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 ...
The singer, who was also a backing vocalist for Elvis Presley, died on Sunday in Nashville, Tennessee, after a "long battle with cancer". Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, vocalist of Grateful Dead in the ...
In the summer of 1968, three years into the Grateful Dead’s existence, the band fired singer and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir. Jerry Garcia, the band’s other guitarist and its reluctant leader, and ...