Breaking: Welsh pop singer Bonnie Tyler dies aged 75

Welsh pop singer Bonnie Tyler, famed for 1980s power ballads such as Total Eclipse of the Heart and Holding Out for a Hero, has died at the age of 75.

Tyler died "unexpectedly" in a hospital in Portugal where she was being treated for an illness, her family said Thursday, local time, in a statement on her website.

In May she was hospitalised in Faro, where she had a home, for emergency intestinal surgery and was later placed in an induced coma.

"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," her family said.

Tyler earned three Grammy nods, represented Britain at the Eurovision Song Contest 2013, in which she came in 19th, and was awarded an MBE for her services to music by Queen Elizabeth II in 2023.

Total Eclipse of the Heart has been streamed more than 1 billion times, boosted by real eclipses in 2017 and 2024.