Bonnie Tyler, whose releases It's a Heartache, Lost in France and the very popular 1983 global smash hit Total Eclipse of the Heart passed away today. She was 75. Tyler passed away unexpectedly in a hospital in Portugal following a battle with a recent illness.

Her immediate family and team confirmed her passing, and tributes from the music community have poured in, celebrating her iconic raspy voice and massive contributions to pop and power-ballad history that will forever be remembered.

Holding Out for a Hero was another hit for the singer who was born Gaynor Hopkins in south Wales in 1951, the fourth of six children of a coal miner and a homemaker. She grew up in a four-bed council house with a large garden in the village of Skewen, outside Swansea.

Tyler earned three Grammy and in 2013 represented Britain at the Eurovision Song Contest, where she came in 19th. She was honored as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2022 for her services to music by Queen Elizabeth II, thanks mainly to her hit Total Eclipse of the Heart, which has had more than 1 billion streams, boosted by real eclipses in 2017 and 2024.

The music industry will miss this great singer, but her music lives on.