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Bonnie Tyler, Singer of 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' Dies at 75
Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler died unexpectedly on July 9 at age 75 while receiving treatment for an illness in a Portuguese hospital. Her family and team issued a statement announcing the death and requesting privacy.
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Bonnie Tyler, the Welsh singer known for the 1983 hit "Total Eclipse of the Heart," died on July 9 at age 75. She died unexpectedly in a hospital in Portugal where she was being treated for an illness, her family and team said in a statement. The statement requested privacy.
Tyler was born Gaynor Hopkins in 1951 in Skewen, Wales. She underwent surgery in 1977 to remove nodules on her vocal cords, resulting in her characteristic gravelly voice. Tyler released the single "Total Eclipse of the Heart" in 1983, which spent four weeks at No.
1 on the charts. " Tyler represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2013 and finished 19th. She received an MBE for services to music from Queen Elizabeth II in 2023. Tyler married property developer Robert Sullivan in 1973.
The couple had no children. Tyler had been hospitalized in May in Faro, Portugal, for emergency intestinal surgery and was later placed in an induced coma.
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