Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly-voiced, Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star best known for singing the chart-topping power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in 1983 and watching new generations succumb to its bombastic charms during solar and lunar eclipses, has died. She was 75 years old.Tyler died “unexpectedly” at a hospital in Portugal, where he was being treated for his illness, his family said in a statement Thursday. She was admitted to hospital in Faro, where she has her home, in May for emergency intestinal surgery and was later put into a coma.Tyler earned three Grammy Awards, represented Britain in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 – where she came 19th – and was awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2023 for her services to music, all thanks to “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, which has over a billion streams, boosted by actual eclipses in 2017 and 2024.The song stayed at number 1 for four weeks, the video has surpassed 1 billion views; And when Stereogum re-evaluated it in 2020, the music outlet declared it an “extinction-level phenomenon presented in musical form”. Tyler was born – as Gaynor Hopkins – in public housing in Skewen, Wales, the daughter of a coal miner. She grew up with three sisters and two brothers. She was a fan of the Beatles and their first album was “A Hard Day’s Night”. He bought his first song, “Hippy Hippie Shake”, by the Swinging Blue Jeans at the age of 13, and according to his memoir, “Straight from the Heart”, he watched “Top of the Pops” religiously. She recorded “Top of the Pops” on a reel-to-reel two-track recorder and wrote lyrics to her favorite songs. Her favorites were songs by Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding.Under her new RCA-approved name Bonnie Tyler, her debut album “The World Starts Tonight” in 1977 included her first chart hit, “Lost in France” and was nominated for a Breakthrough Artist Award at the Brit Awards. She then had a No. 3 hit with “It’s a Heartache” in 1978, but soon broke up. He then signed with Sony and saw Meat Loaf perform “Bat Out of Hell” on the BBC. Impressed, he requested to work with Meat Loaf songwriter and producer Jim Steinman.Steinman introduced her to his song “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, which became the first single for her fifth studio album, “Faster than the Speed of Night”. He borrowed one of the lyrics – “Turn around, bright eyes” – from his 1969 musical “The Dream Engine”, written while a student at Amherst College in Massachusetts. They told him the song was from a possible musical version of “Nosferatu”.“Faster than the Speed of Night” earned a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Vocal Performance – losing to Pat Benatar’s “Love Is a Battlefield” – and Tyler received another award for “Total Eclipse of the Heart” in the Best Pop Vocal Performance category, losing to Irene Cara’s “Flashdance – What a Feeling”.Tyler never reached such heights again, but remained in the present with movie soundtrack singles like “Holding Out for a Hero” from 1984’s “Footloose” – and “Here She Comes” from “Metropolis.” Tyler was married to property developer and former Olympic judo competitor Robert Sullivan.