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Grammy-nominated singer Bonnie Tyler died Wednesday night in a hospital in Portugal, according to a statement on her social media accounts. She was 75.
Tyler was hospitalized in early May in Faro, Portugal, where she lives, for emergency bowel surgery. She was later placed in an induced coma for several weeks.
The husky-voiced singer is best known for her performances in the 1983s. Total eclipse of the hearthit #1 in Canada, the UK and the Billboard Hot 100. The song and the album it comes from, Faster than the speed of nightwere nominated for a Grammy Award in 1984.
A Welsh Miner’s Daughter first hit number one in Canada in 1978 with It’s heartachewhich became a top five Billboard hit.