Tabbatacciyar labari: Bonnie Tyler, mawaƙiyar ƙasar Wales da aka sani da muryarta mai ƙarfi da ƙarfi wadda ta mayar da waƙoƙi kamar Total Eclipse of the Heart zuwa shahararrun waƙoƙin 1980s, ta rasu tana da shekaru 75.
Wani saƙo a shafinta na Facebook ya karanta: "Iyalin Bonnie da tawagarta suna cikin baƙin ciki don sanar da cewa Bonnie ta rasu ba zato ba tsammani a daren jiya a asibiti a Portugal sakamakon rashin lafiyar da ake yi mata magani."
A watan Mayu, Tyler ta yi tiyatar gaggawa a hanjinta a wani asibiti kusa da Faro, Portugal, inda take zaune. Daga baya aka saka ta a cikin suman da aka jawo don taimakawa ta warke. An fitar da ita daga suman, amma wani wakili ya ce ta kasance "ba ta da lafiya sosai kuma tana cikin kulawa mai tsanani."
[Hoto: Bonnie Tyler a 1976. Hoton: Nick Rogers/ANL/Shutterstock]
Tare da Total Eclipse of the Heart daga 1983—wadda ta kai matsayi na 1 a Amurka da Burtaniya kuma ana iya cewa ita ce mafi kyawun waƙar soyayya mai ƙarfi—waƙoƙin Tyler da suka yi fice sun haɗa da Holding Out for a Hero, wadda ta kawo kuzari mai ƙarfi a cikin sautin fim ɗin Footloose kuma ta kai matsayi na 2 a jadawalin Burtaniya a 1984, da kuma waƙar baƙin ciki It's a Heartache, wadda ta ba ta ci gaba a 1977.
Keir Starmer yana cikin waɗanda suka yi jana'izar Tyler. Wakilin Starmer ya ce: "Firayim Minista ya yi baƙin ciki da jin labarin mutuwar Bonnie Tyler, ɗaya daga cikin manyan mawaƙan rikodi na Burtaniya kuma fitacciyar mutum. Ta bar tarin waƙoƙi, daga Total Eclipse of the Heart zuwa Holding Out for a Hero, waɗanda ke ci gaba da taɓa rayuka, cika filayen rawa, da cika wuraren karaoke. Tunanin Firayim Minista yana tare da abokanta da danginta."
An haifi Tyler sunanta Gaynor Hopkins a ƙauyen Skewen kusa da Swansea, ta girma a gidan majalisa tare da ’yan’uwa biyar da suka girmeta. "Na ɗauki kaina a matsayin yarinya mai aiki kuma ban taɓa daina aiki ba," ta gaya wa Guardian a 2013. "Ina yin ayyuka da yawa [na wasanni] saboda ina jin wasu mutane za su so a ba su abin da ake ba ni."
Aikin waƙarta ya fara da ƙanƙanta: tana rera waƙoƙin kwaikwayo a gidajen wasanni na gida yayin da take aiki a wani kantin sayar da kayan abinci. Amma wani mai neman hazaka ya ji tana rera waƙar Freda Payne Band of Gold wata rana, kuma ta yi rikodin demo don gabatarwa ga kamfanonin rikodin. Bayan shekaru biyu, RCA ta sanya mata hannu, kuma ta ɗauki sunan wasan kwaikwayo Bonnie Tyler.
Waƙarta ta farko ta gaza, amma ta biyu, Lost in France—waƙar soyayya mai rawa da accordions da "ooh la las"—ta shiga cikin Top 10 na Burtaniya, kuma ta biyo baya More Than a Lover ita ma ta yi nasara mai matsakaici. Bayan tiyata mai nasara a kan nodules a muryarta—"muryata ta yi ƙarfi fiye da da, kuma tana da ƙarin kaifi," ta ce daga baya—sai waƙar baƙin ciki It's a Heartache, wadda ta dace da sabon sautin muryarta mai ƙarfi. Ta zama nasararta ta farko a Amurka, ta kai matsayi na 3 a can da matsayi na 4 a Burtaniya.
'An rubuta ta don wasan kwaikwayo na Nosferatu': yadda Bonnie Tyler ta yi Total Eclipse of the Heart
Kara karantawa
Tyler ta nuna iyawa sosai, tana motsawa tsakanin waƙoƙin soyayya masu ɗanɗanon ƙasa da waƙoƙin disco-pop kamar waƙar 1979 (The World is Full of) Married Men, wadda aka yi rikodin don fim ɗin da aka daidaita daga littafin Jackie Collins mai suna iri ɗaya. Amma Tyler ta so ta shiga cikin kiɗan rock kuma ta nemi Jim Steinman, wanda ya sami babban nasara a matsayin babban mai haɗin gwiwa na Meat Loaf a kan Bat Out of Hell da sauransu.
Steinman ya ji daɗin Tyler kuma ya ba ta Total Eclipse of the Heart (an ruwaito ya sa Meat Loaf ya yi kishi daga baya). Tyler ta gaya wa wata abokiyarta a lokacin: "Na yi rikodin waƙa mai ban mamaki a yau. Matsalar ita ce, tana da tsayi sosai, ba na tsammanin wani zai taɓa kunna ta." Amma bayan an rage wannan waƙar mai tsawon minti bakwai zuwa minti huɗu da ta dace da rediyo, ta zama babbar nasara. Tare da "turn around..." daga mawaƙin da ba a ambata ba Rory Dodd, waƙar ta nuna ƙarshen soyayya mai zafi. Baya ga zama abin karaoke da kuma matsayi na 1 a tsakanin Amurka da Burtaniya, ta kai saman jadawalin a Australia, Kanada, Ireland, da sauran ƙasashe da yawa.
"Wasu mutane suna tunanin wannan waƙa game da vampire ne," Tyler ta taɓa cewa. "Ban taɓa fahimtar wannan fassarar ba," ta ce daga baya. "Jim ya taɓa gaya wa Playbill cewa yana aiki a kan sigar wasan kwaikwayo na fim ɗin shiru Nosferatu. Na taɓa tunanin 'Total Eclipse' a matsayin waƙar soyayya mai zafi." Kundin da ya zo da ita, Faster Than the Speed of Night—wanda ya haɗa da kwaikwayo mai rai na John Fogerty "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?"—ya kai matsayi na 1 a jadawalin kundi na Burtaniya.
Tare da salon muryarta mai ban mamaki, Tyler ta kasance a kololuwar nasarar kasuwanci. Waƙar mai farin ciki "Holding Out for a Hero," wata waƙar Steinman, ta nuna wani bangare daban amma mai ban mamaki na basirarta. Haɗin gwiwarta na 1984 da Giorgio Moroder, "Here She Comes," ya ba Tyler lambar yabo ta Grammy ta uku a cikin shekaru biyu. Ta ci gaba da aiki tare da Steinman, wanda ya shirya kundinta na 1986 Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire, wanda ya haɗa da waƙar da ta yi nasara mai matsakaici "If You Were a Woman (And I Was a Man)" da kwaikwayo na "Band of Gold," waƙar da ta fara ganowa. Shekara ta gaba, ta fito a cikin wani rikodin sauti mai cike da taurari na littafin Dylan Thomas na ƙasar Wales Under Milk Wood, wanda George Martin ya jagoranta, tare da Tom Jones, Anthony Hopkins, Alan Bennett, da sauransu, tare da kiɗan Elton John.
Ko da yake nasarar kasuwanci a Burtaniya da Amurka ta fara raguwa—ko da yake waƙoƙinta sun kasance masu shahara a rediyon tsofaffi—ta kasance babbar ƙarfi a Yammacin Turai. Kundinta na 1991 Bitterblue, wanda Dieter Bohlen, fitaccen mawaƙin Jamus, ya shirya, ya kai saman jadawalin a ƙasashe da yawa. Jerin kundin da suka biyo baya a cikin 1990s suma sun yi kyau a duk faɗin Turai, kuma wani rikodin bilingual na 2003 na "Total Eclipse of the Heart" tare da tauraruwar Faransa Kareen Antonn ya kasance babbar nasara a Faransa, yana shafe makonni goma a matsayi na 1.
Wannan nasara ta sa Tyler ta zama zaɓi na halitta don shigar Burtaniya a Eurovision, amma waƙarta ta 2013 "Believe in Me" ba ta jawo hankalin masu jefa ƙuri'a na Turai ba, kuma ta ƙare a matsayi na 19 daga cikin ƙasashe 26. "Na tabbata mutane da yawa za su yi baƙin ciki a gare ni, amma na ji daɗin kwarewata ta Eurovision sosai," ta ce bayan sakamakon. "Na yi iya ƙoƙarina da waƙa mai kyau. Ba na cikin baƙin ciki game da shi, kuma a shirye nake don yin biki."
Duba hoto cikakke: Bonnie Tyler a gidanta kusa da Swansea a 2009. Hoton: Catherine Mead/Shutterstock
Aƙalla ya taimaka wajen haɓaka kundinta na farko tun 2005, Rocks and Honey, wanda ya sami nasara mai matsakaici. Kundin da ya biyo baya, Between the Earth and the Stars, ya dawo da ita zuwa jadawalin kundi na Top 40 na Burtaniya a karo na farko tun 1986. Kundin studio na ƙarshe shine na 2021 The Best Is Yet to Come, ko da yake ta sake duba "Total Eclipse of the Heart" tare da tauraruwar EDM David Guetta don waƙar 2025 "Together," tare da haɗin gwiwar Hypaton.
Bonnie Tyler ta fi duk abokan aikinta na waƙoƙin soyayya masu ƙarfi kuma ta ƙirƙiri nau'ikan kiɗan pop da yawa masu ban mamaki.
Kara karantawa
Tun daga 1973, Tyler ta yi aure mai tsawo da mai haɓaka gidaje Robert Sullivan, wanda kuma ya wakilci Burtaniya a judo a gasar Olympics ta Munich 1972. Ba su da yara, ko da yake Tyler ta yi zubar da ciki tana da shekaru 39. "Mun yi tunanin cewa ba haka ya kamata ba," Tyler ta gaya wa Guardian daga baya. "Ina da babban iyali ko ta yaya. Ina da yaran allah biyar, ’ya’yan ’yan’uwa 16, da jikoki 12, don haka babu ƙarancin yara a rayuwata."
Tambayoyi da Aka Yi Yawa
Anan akwai jerin tambayoyin da aka yi yawa game da mutuwar Bonnie Tyler da aka rubuta cikin yanayin tattaunawa na halitta tare da amsoshi bayyanannu kuma daidai
Tabbatarwa Gabaɗaya
Q Shin gaskiya ne cewa Bonnie Tyler ta mutu
A Ee kafofin watsa labarai sun ba da rahoton cewa Bonnie Tyler mawaƙiyar da ta shahara da Total Eclipse of the Heart ta rasu tana da shekaru 75
Q Yaushe Bonnie Tyler ta mutu
A Rahotanni sun nuna cewa ta rasu kwanan nan tana da shekaru 75
Q Ta yaya Bonnie Tyler ta mutu
A Iyalinta ba su bayyana ainihin dalilin mutuwar a bainar jama'a ba a wannan lokacin Ana ba da shawarar mutunta sirrin iyalinta
Q An tabbatar da wannan ko kuma jita-jita ce kawai
A Labarin ya tabbata daga manyan kafofin watsa labarai da yawa da kuma sanarwa daga wakilanta
Aiki da Gado
Q Me Bonnie Tyler ta fi shahara da shi
A Ta kasance tauraruwar poprock ta duniya da aka fi sani da muryarta mai ƙarfi da ƙarfi da kuma waƙarta mai girma ta 1980s Total Eclipse of the Heart Hakanan tana da manyan waƙoƙi kamar Holding Out for a Hero da Its a Heartache
Q Shekarunta nawa ne lokacin da ta yi waƙarta mafi girma
A Tana da shekaru 32 lokacin da aka fitar da Total Eclipse of the Heart a 1983
Q Tana da wasu shahararrun waƙoƙi banda Total Eclipse of the Heart
A Tabbas Holding Out for a Hero Its a Heartache da Lost in France suna cikin sauran waƙoƙinta na musamman
Q Me ya bambanta game da muryarta
A Tana da murya mai ƙarfi da ƙarfi Wannan ya faru ne sakamakon tiyata don cire nodules a muryarta wanda ba zato ba tsammani ya ba ta wannan sautin na musamman
Q Ta ci manyan lambobin yabo
A An zaɓe ta don lambobin yabo na Grammy guda uku kuma ta ci wasu lambobin yabo da yawa ciki har da lambar yabo ta Brit Hakanan an zaɓe ta don lambar yabo ta Academy don waƙar The World daga fim ɗin The World Is Not Enough
Girmamawa da Tasiri
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