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  • Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a soulful backing vocalist for the Grateful Dead, dies at 78 in Nashville after a long cancer battle.
  • Born Donna Jean Thatcher in Florence, Alabama, she began as a Muscle Shoals session singer before joining the Grateful Dead in the early 1970s.
  • The couple formed The Ghosts, later the Heart of Gold Band, while remaining active in the Grateful Dead orbit.

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