The vocalist spent the Seventies with the legendary group, and she also sang backup on hits by Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge ...

Known as “the first lady of the Grateful Dead,” she died of cancer on Nov. 2 in hospice care in Nashville at age 78.

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

Grateful Dead legend Donna Jean Godchaux has died, and fans are paying tribute in her honor. Here's what to know.

Grateful Dead singer Donna Jean Godchaux has died at the age of 78, it has been announced, after the star had been battling ...

Shortly after vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux died, her former band, Grateful Dead, paid tribute to her on Instagram.

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 ...

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 ...

MacKay, the celebrated musician and mezzo-soprano who spent the '70s as the Grateful Dead's first and only female vocalist, has died. She was 78. Godchaux died on Sunday at a hospice facility in ...

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, who lent her powerful, soaring, Gospel-style voice to the Grateful Dead as a backup singer from 1971 to 1979, has died, her representative confirmed to TheWrap on Monday.