Thousands of fans honor Bonnie Tyler in Wales before Monday funeral

jovempan.com.br (Portuguese)

Thousands of fans gathered in Mumbles, Wales, on Saturday to honor British singer Bonnie Tyler as her coffin passed through the town ahead of her funeral on Monday. She died in July at age 75. Fans sang "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and threw flowers on the hearse, which carried a coffin draped in the Welsh flag. Tyler died on July 8 in Portugal, where she had a home, after being hospitalized in Faro for intestinal surgery and placed in an induced coma. Born in 1951 near Mumbles, Tyler was discovered in 1975 and kept her Welsh accent. Her 1983 hit has 1.2 billion Spotify streams. The funeral will be held Monday at Swansea Cathedral, followed by a private ceremony.


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