The Welsh singer, famous for "Total Eclipse of the Heart," died Wednesday night in a hospital in Faro, Portugal. She was 75. Her family said the death came "unexpectedly," after weeks of treatment for an illness.

Just months earlier, Tyler sat down for what turned out to be her final TV interview. It aired on the UK show Lorraine in February.

Host Lorraine Kelly told Tyler she was "looking fantastic" and added there was "no sign of you slowing down whatsoever, Bonnie."

Tyler agreed. She said she might take a step back next year, though admitted she wasn't sure she could fully stop.

Nobody watching that interview could have guessed what was coming.

In May, Tyler fell seriously ill during a concert in London. Doctors ran tests but found nothing conclusive. She flew to the Algarve region of Portugal, where she began suffering severe abdominal pain.

Her appendix had burst. She needed emergency surgery. Doctors later placed her into a medically induced coma to help her recover.

According to Portuguese media reports, she went into cardiac arrest when doctors first tried to bring her out of the coma. Her team said last month she had woken up but remained in intensive care, "very unwell."

For a while, it looked like she might pull through.

Then, on Wednesday night, she was gone.

"Bonnie's family and team are heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away," the family said in a statement posted to her website.

Tyler shot to fame in the late 1970s and became a global star in the 1980s with power ballads like "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Holding Out for a Hero." The former alone has racked up more than a billion streams, helped along by real solar and lunar eclipses in 2017 and 2024.

She earned three Grammy nominations, represented Britain at Eurovision in 2013, and received an MBE for her services to music in 2023.

Tributes poured in from British officials, including a spokesman for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who called her "one of Britain's greatest recording artists."

Tyler had no children. She is survived by her husband, Robert Sullivan.