The official statement, released on Thursday morning, continued: “We will issue a further statement shortly but for now ask for privacy to deal with this tragedy.”<\/p>\n
Wales Secretary Jo Stevens has paid tribute to the singer following her death.<\/p>\n
“So sad to hear of the death of Bonnie Tyler,” she wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n
“A Welsh music icon, Grammy and Brit award winner and the sound of my teenage years.”<\/p>\n
Rhun ap Iorwerth, the First Minister of Wales added the singer was a “true icon”, and that he was “deeply saddened” by the news. <\/p>\n
Tyler had been due to perform at the Sunshine Festival in Worcester this summer, along with a number of European dates. <\/p>\n
She had also been booked to sing at Cardiff’s Utilita Arena on 17 December.<\/p>\n
Family friend Owen Money told the BBC the singer “was one of those ladies who just loved life”, and he was “in disbelief” at the news of her death.<\/p>\n
The musician and radio presenter said: “I’ve known her since before she was famous, in the late 60s when she was starting out in Swansea.<\/p>\n
“She’s like family really. I was up her house last summer and the first thing she did was open a bottle of champagne.<\/p>\n
“Not only were we friends but we were fans of each other. She was still huge in Europe, Germany, Holland, she was just so good. She’s a Welsh icon.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official statement, released on Thursday morning, continued: “We will issue a further statement shortly but for now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-682089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}