Bonnie Tyler will re-tour Ireland in December 2008 following the success of her last tour with JW Promotions
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Fri 19th December NEC, The Gleneagle Hotel, Killarney, Co. Kerry
Box Office 00353 64 3600
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Sat 20th & Sun 21st December –Royal Theatre, Castlebar
Box Office 0818 300 000
Support from Paul Casey.
Bonnie recorded her debut single ‘Lost In France’ and it was an international hit, going top 10 in Britain and becoming a million-seller in America. Her single ‘It's A Heartache’ was a worldwide smash, and remains her biggest selling single. Bonnie has become a crossover talent, being played on pop, country and soul radio stations.
Bonnie Tyler was raised in a working-class family of six children. Her father worked as a miner while her mother, an opera fan, shared her love of music with her children. Influenced by the music of Janis Joplin and Tina Turner, she sang as a teen with a group called "Bobby Wayne and the Dixies," following which she formed her own band, calling it "Imagination." Adopting different stage names until settling on Bonnie Tyler, she and her band performed for nearly a decade at pubs and nightclubs throughout South Wales.
In 1975, Tyler recorded "My My Honeycomb", her first single for RCA Records, which failed to make the charts. Her second single, "Lost in France" reached the top 10 on the British pop music charts.
Her success with "Lost in France" led Tyler to record her first album in 1977. Titled The World Starts Tonight, it met with only modest success, but Bonnie claims it did well enough that she could tour throughout Europe. Prior to the album's release, Tyler underwent surgery to remove nodules on her vocal cords. Against her doctor's orders, she spoke before she had healed, resulting in her singing voice taking on a raspy quality. At first, this made Tyler believe her singing career was over. As it turned out, in 1978 her next single, "It's a Heartache," made her a star. The song, which was previously a hit for Juice Newton, became a number 1 hit in 6 European countries, peaked at #4 on the UK charts, and went to #3 on the US pop charts, and to #10 on the US country charts. The song "Sitting on the Edge of the Ocean", again written by Scott and Wolfe, won the Grand Prix in the Tenth Yamaha - World Popular Song Contest in Tokyo in 1979.
She signed with CBS Records in 1982. Her next album, Faster Than the Speed of Night, proved to be a hit, and the single "Total Eclipse of the Heart", written by Jim Steinman, topped the charts, remaining at No. 1 for 4 weeks. "Faster Than the Speed of Night" shot straight into the UK album charts at No.1, making Bonnie the first ever female artist to have achieved this, earning a Guinness Record. "Total Eclipse of the Heart" brought Tyler a 1983 nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and the album Faster Than the Speed of Night earned her another Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
In 1984, the year she performed "Total Eclipse of the Heart" at the Grammy Awards, she received a Grammy nomination as Best Rock Female Vocalist for "Here She Comes," a song that was part of the soundtrack for the 1984 restoration of the film Metropolis. In 1984, she released the single "Holding Out for a Hero" from the soundtrack and film Footloose; the tune reached #34 on the U.S. Hot 100, making it Tyler's third and final top-40 U.S. hit. The albums Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire and Hide Your Heart followed, but lacked the success of her previous efforts.
In the early 1990s, Tyler recorded the album Bitterblue. This album went quadruple-platinum in Norway, platinum in Austria, and gold in Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden, amongst other countries. Bonnie followed up with Angel Heart. This album repeated the success of Bitterblue. Silhouette in Red, released in 1993, saw Tyler win Best International Female Vocalist in the ECHO Awards. After that, her live performances continued to draw large followings, but her recordings met with limited market success until the young French singer Kareen Antonn approached her to record a duet. "Si Demain", their French language version of "Total Eclipse of the Heart," was released in January 2004 and went to No. 1 in France, Belgium, and Poland, selling two millions copies all over world.
On March 12, 2007 Sony BMG release "Greatest Hits From the Heart" which will contain a brand new song called "Under One Sky" which will be released as a single).
