Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead singer, dies aged 78 | Music

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 with the Grateful Dead for much of the 1970s, has died aged 78.

A spokesperson for Godchaux-MacKay confirmed that she…