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muere Bonnie Tyler : la voz mas desgarrada y desgarradora

JuanJoseRuiz · 2026-07-09T09:51:15+00:00

Total Eclipse of the Heart singer Bonnie Tyler dies at 75 Bonnie Tyler, celebrated around the world for tracks for pop-rock anthems including Total Eclipse of the Heart and Holding Out For A Hero, has died at the age of 75 after suffering a medical emergenc Bonnie Tyler has died at the age of 75. The husky-voiced singer, who shot to fame with hits like Total Eclipse of the Heart and Holding Out For A Hero, died in Portugal weeks after she was placed in an induced coma trincowing emergency intestinal surgery. A message on the Welsh star's website read: "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." Last month, her spokesperson said she was out of the coma but remained "very unwell and in intensive care". The star, who split her time between South Wales and her home in Faro, Portugal, had been due to embark on a European tour later this year but was hospitalised in May. Edinburgh fire live: Historic building left in ruins after inferno on Princes Street Mum's 30-day nightmare as £12m 'winning lottery ticket' is binned by shopkeeper View 4 Images The star's real name was Gaynor Hopkins but changed it to Bonnie Tyler just before she found fame(Image: Michael Ochs Archives) View 4 Images Bonnie began her music career in the 1970s but things really took off in the mid-1980s when she turned to a rock sound (Image: WireImage) Bonnie was initially said to be stable and recovering well from her surgery, but less than 24 hours later, she was placed into an induced coma. Portuguese outlet Correio da Manha reported: "The singer is unconscious and connected to a breathing ventilator in the intensive care unit." A spokesman for the singer said that Bonnie was "recuperating well" and a recovery appeared to be on the cards. Bonnie is survived by her husband Robert Sullivan, an Olympian, whom she married in 1973. The couple had no children together. Born as Gaynor Hopkins in 1951, to a coalminer and a housekeeper in Skewen, Neath, Wales, Bonnie grew up with with three sisters and two brothers. View 4 Images Bonnie is survived by her husband Robert Sullivan, whom she married in 1973(Image: German Select) As a teenager, Bonnie was entered into a talent competition by her aunt and after finishing as runner-up, she decided to pursue a career in singing. After finding work as a backing singer, she formed the band Imagination and changed her name to Sherene Davis to avoid confusion with fellow Welsh songstress Mary Hopkin, most known for her song Those Were the Days. In the mid-1970s, Sherene was spotted by a talent scout and, after scouring newspaper articles, settled on the name Bonnie Tyler and initially found success with the track Lost in France when she signed with RCA Records. As she celebrated her new found fame, Bonnie began to develop a sore throat. After consulting a doctor she was informed that she had developed nodules on her vocal cords as the result of so much singing and that the only option was for them to be surgically removed. And once the operation was done, she was told, she would have to rest her voice completely for six weeks - not even speaking, let alone singing. It proved to be an impossible demand. After one anguished scream of frustration, she returned to be told that she may have suffered permanent damage. When it finally healed and she tried to sing again, her voice had changed. Her already husky tones had acquired a new gravelly rasp – and her producers loved it. “When I went into the studio they all said, ‘Bloody ‘ell, where’s that voice come from?'” she later recalled. “I now sounded like a female Rod Stewart.” Things really took off for Bonnie when she ventured into rock music and collaborated with Meat Loaf and Celine Dion lyricist Jim Steinman with the song Total Eclipse of the Heart. Total Eclipse topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic and cemented Bonnie's place in rock music history. The track was originally titled Vampires in Love, as it had been written for a musical version of Nosferatu. "I never get tired of singing it," Bonnie recently told BBC News. "I love it because everyone can't wait to sing it." “I never thought it had a prayer as a single,” writer Steinman told People magazine in the US. “It was an aria to me, a Wagnerian-like onslaught of sound and emotion. I wrote it to be a showpiece for her voice.” The track became the lead single from her album Faster Than The Speed of Night, with Bonnie going on to sell more than 100 million records worldwide, releasing 18 studio albums and 86 singles in her decades spanning career. View 4 Images The 80s legend was still performing just weeks before her death (Image: Most Wanted/Shutterstock) Steinman also wrote her other major 1980s pop-rock anthem Holding Out for a Hero, which was recorded for the Footloose film soundtrack. In 2013, she was selected to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest with Believe in Me, ending up in 19th place. Her final album, titled The Best Is Yet to Come, reached #18 in the charts upon its 2021 release, whilst she joined David Guetta, and Hypaton on Together in 2025. Bonnie had performed several dates across the UK in March, and, with an upcoming tour planned, recently explained that she never planned to retire. She told The Mirror : "I started singing when I was 17 and I never thought I'd still be doing it at this age. I've slowed down a little bit, but I know now that I will never retire. "Even though I was so lucky because I was in Portugal when the first lockdown was announced, by the end of it, I'd had enough. I was going crazy. I needed to get back out there on the road!"