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Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead Singer, Dies at 78

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, the Alabama-born singer who helped shape the Grateful Dead’s 1970s sound and sang on hits by Percy Sledge and Elvis Presley, died Sunday in Nashville at 78. Her publicist said she had cancer and died in hospice care. A Muscle Shoals session vocalist, she joined the Dead in the early ’70s with her husband, pianist Keith Godchaux, contributing to staples like Eyes of the World and Playing in the Band before leaving in 1979. Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, she later performed with Dead & Company.

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