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Singer Bonnie Tyler, Known for 'Total Eclipse of the Heart,' Dies at 75
Welsh pop singer Bonnie Tyler died on July 9 in a hospital in Portugal while receiving treatment for an illness. She was 75. Her family announced the death in a statement on her website.
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Singer Bonnie Tyler died on July 9 in a hospital in Portugal at age 75 while receiving treatment for an illness. Her family and team said in a statement that they were heartbroken by the news and requested privacy. Tyler had been hospitalized in May in Faro, Portugal, for emergency intestinal surgery and was later placed in an induced coma.
Tyler rose to prominence with the 1983 single "Total Eclipse of the Heart," which spent four weeks at No. 1 on the charts. She also released "Holding Out for a Hero" in 1984. Born Gaynor Hopkins in 1951 in Skewen, Wales, she underwent surgery in 1977 to remove vocal cord nodules that left her with a gravelly voice.
Tyler represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2013, finishing 19th. She received an MBE for services to music from Queen Elizabeth II in 2023. " She married property developer Robert Sullivan in 1973.
The couple had no children.
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