{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Grateful Dead singer, dies at 78","publication_date":"November 03, 2025","summary":"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 at 78.","author_name":"By Associated Press","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2025\/11\/5689ba6032f1f8ac3a60750cafd39b99-AP25307643848284-e1762205336151-1024x682.jpg","thumbnail_height":682,"thumbnail_width":1024}