Famous singer Bonnie Tyler has died at the age of 75

Bonnie Tyler, a Welsh pop-rock singer known for 80s hits such as "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Holding Out for a Hero," died on Wednesday at the age of 75, reports UNN citing Variety.

"Bonnie's family and team sadly announce that Bonnie passed away unexpectedly last night in a hospital in Portugal due to an illness she was being treated for," reads a statement published on Tyler's official website and Facebook page on Thursday. "We will publish an additional statement soon, but for now, we ask that you respect her privacy to cope with this tragedy."

In May, Tyler was hospitalized for emergency intestinal surgery and was eventually placed in a medically induced coma. Prior to hospitalization, she planned to go on tour this summer. Tyler emerged from the month-long coma in June, but, according to her Facebook page, remained "very ill and in intensive care."

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Gaynor Hopkins, born on June 8, 1951, in Skewen, Wales, was spotted by scout Roger Bell in Swansea and burst onto the music scene with her 1977 hit "Lost in France" and debut album "The World Starts Tonight." After surgery to remove nodules on her vocal cords, her voice retained its characteristic huskiness.

In the early 1980s, Tyler began working with producer Jim Steinman, who wrote the song Total Eclipse of the Heart. Selling around 6 million copies, it became the fifth single of 1983 in the UK and spent four weeks at the top of the charts in the US, making her the first Welsh woman to achieve a number 1 hit in the country. Her popular 1984 song Holding Out for a Hero, co-written with Steinman, was included in the soundtrack for the film Footloose that same year, and her recording Here She Comes was included in the soundtrack for Giorgio Moroder's restored version of Metropolis. Over her career, she was nominated for a Grammy Award three times, including for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the 1983 album "Faster Than the Speed of Night" and the song "Here She Comes."

In 2013, she represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Believe in Me from her 16th album Rocks and Honey. In 2021, she released her 18th and final album The Best Is Yet to Come, but shortly before that, she presented a new single titled Only Love, which premiered at a concert in London in March.

Tyler also wrote an autobiography detailing her 50-year career in the industry, titled "Straight From the Heart," which was published in 2023. That same year, she was awarded the Order of the British Empire for services to music.

She is survived by her husband, Robert Sullivan, whom she married in 1973.