{"name":"Bonnie Tyler","title":"Bonnie Tyler","id":1268,"slug":"bonnie-tyler","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/api/v3/core/authors/1268/?format=json","bio_short":"Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins on June 8, 1951 in Skewen, Neath, Wales) is a Welsh singer. Born into a large 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, as a teen she sang 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, for nearly a decade she and her band performed at pubs and nightclubs all over South Wales.","artist_img":"//guitarparty.overcastcdn.com/images/BonnieTylerpng.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x675-c100.format-jpeg.jpg","songs":[{"id":26769,"title":"Holding Out For A Hero","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/holding-out-for-a-hero/"},{"id":959,"title":"It's a heartache","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/its-a-heartache/"},{"id":24328,"title":"It's a jungle out there","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/its-a-jungle-out-there/"},{"id":1981,"title":"Total Eclipse Of The Heart","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/total-eclipse-of-the-heart/"},{"id":25019,"title":"Þjóðhátíð bíður","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/thjodhatid-bidur/"}]}