Overview
- The death occurred on Nov. 2 at Alive Hospice in Nashville, according to a family statement released to multiple outlets.
- Godchaux-MacKay sang with the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979, appearing on albums including Europe ’72, Wake of the Flood, Terrapin Station and Shakedown Street.
- Before joining the band, she was a Muscle Shoals session singer whose backing vocals feature on Elvis Presley’s Suspicious Minds and Percy Sledge’s When a Man Loves a Woman.
- Survivors include her husband David MacKay, sons Kinsman MacKay and Zion Godchaux, grandson Delta, sister Gogi Clark and brother Ivan Thatcher.
- The Grateful Dead posted an official tribute acknowledging her contributions, and she was inducted with the band into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994; her final studio release arrived in 2014.