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Welsh Singer Bonnie Tyler Dies at 75 in Portugal Hospital
Bonnie Tyler died unexpectedly while receiving treatment for an illness. Her family announced the death in a statement released on her website and social media accounts.
Jul 9, 5:40 AM·1m read23 sources
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Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler died unexpectedly last night 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. 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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Tyler rose to prominence with the 1983 single "Total Eclipse of the Heart," which spent four weeks at No. 1 on the charts and has since surpassed one billion streams on Spotify and one billion views on its official video. The track earned her three Grammy nominations.
Born Gaynor Hopkins in 1951 in Skewen, Wales, the fourth of six children of a coal miner and a homemaker, Tyler underwent surgery in 1977 to remove vocal cord nodules that left her with the gravelly voice that became her trademark. She represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2013, finishing 19th, and received an MBE for services to music from Queen Elizabeth II in 2023.
In 2019 Tyler released the album "Between the Earth and the Stars," featuring duets with Rod Stewart, Cliff Richard and Francis Rossi, and performed at a Vatican Christmas concert before Pope Francis.
She married property developer Robert Sullivan in 1973. The couple had no children. "Bonnie's family and team are heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was being treated for," the family statement said.
