Grateful Dead singer who worked with Elvis Presley on hit song dies at 78 after cancer battle
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Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, former Grateful Dead singer, died at 78 after battling cancer, surrounded by family at a Nashville hospice on Nov. 2.
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"She was a sweet and warmly beautiful spirit, and all those who knew her are united in loss. The family requests privacy at this time of grieving. In the words of Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, ‘May the four winds blow her safely home,’" her representative said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Godchaux-MacKay was born in Florence, Alabama. Throughout her career, she was a background vocalist on two No. 1 songs – Percy Sledge’s "When a Man Loves a Woman" and Elvis Presley’s "Suspicious Minds."
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