Bonnie Tyler — the smoky-voiced Welsh belter who turned heartbreak into arena-sized bombast with “Total Eclipse of the Heart” — died Wednesday in a Portuguese hospital. She was 75. The singer, born Gaynor Hopkins in the coal-mining village of Skewen, Wales, had been battling an illness and passed away in Faro, where she’d made her home for decades, her family confirmed in a Facebook post. Her road to that final night was tough. Back in May, Tyler underwent emergency surgery on a perforated intestine, was placed in an induced coma, and spent weeks fighting for her life in intensive care before doctors believed she was turning a corner. Tyler’s raspy, whiskey-and-cigarettes voice — the product of throat surgery she had in 1977 to remove vocal nodules — became one of pop’s most distinctive instruments, and she leaned into it hard. “I can’t help it if I’ve got a husky voice,” she once shot back at critics who compared her to Rod Stewart. That voice found its perfect vehicle in 1983’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” a Jim Steinman-penned monster originally dreamed up for a Nosferatu musical. The song was practically destined for Meat Loaf — until he lost his voice during recording and Tyler swooped in. The track shot to No. 1, sold millions, and hasn’t left the culture since, still racking up karaoke nights and eclipse-season streaming spikes more than four decades later. “ “After it was a hit,” she remembered, Meat Loaf “always used to say: ‘Dang. That song should have been mine!’” She told The Telegrapgh last year, “How can you ever possibly imagine it would still be so big today and people who weren’t even born then would be singing it at karaoke?” Tyler followed up with “Holding Out for a Hero,” the synth-pop banger that soundtracked “Footloose” and blared out of gyms and movie screens throughout the ’80s. She racked up three Grammy nominations along the way, though she never took one home. The daughter of a coal miner and one of six kids, Tyler credited her mother with instilling the grit that carried her out of Wales and onto the world stage, once recalling her mom’s blunt advice: believe in yourself, because nobody else will do it for you. She went on to represent the United Kingdom at Eurovision in 2013, released more than a dozen albums across her career — her last, “In Berlin,” dropped in 2024 — and was honored with the Order of the British Empire in 2022 for her contributions to music. Tyler is survived by her husband, Robert Sullivan, a former Olympic judo competitor turned property developer, whom she married back in 1973. A full list of survivors was not immediately available.