Bonnie Tyler
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Born, Gaynor Hopkins in Skewen into a large working class family. As a teen, she sang with a group called "Bobby Wayne and the Dixies" and in her own band, calling it "Imagination," adopting different stage names until settling on "Bonnie Tyler."
Her album, "Faster Than The Speed Of Night" proved an international blockbuster and the single "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" written by Jim Steinman topped the charts worldwide, remaining at Hot 100 No. 1 Hits of 1983 for several weeks. The multi-million selling album took the music world by storm, debuting at No. 1 on the British charts and going on to become a record that is regarded by rock connoisseurs as an operatic masterpiece with its thundering Tchaikovskyesque cannons. The album brought Tyler a 1983 Grammy Award nomination as best Pop Female Vocalist and the song "Total Eclipse of the Heart" earned her a nomination for best Rock Female Vocalist.
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