Editing Bonnie Tyler (section)

==Early life==
Tyler was born Gaynor Hopkins on 8 June 1951<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://eurovision.tv/story/bonnie-tyler-to-represent-united-kingdom |title=Bonnie Tyler to represent United Kingdom |date=7 March 2013 |website=Eurovision.tv |access-date=6 June 2018 }}</ref> in [[Skewen]], [[Neath]], Wales. Her father, Glyndŵr Hopkins, was a [[coal miner]] and serviceman in the [[Second World War]], and her mother, Elsie Hopkins (née Lewis), was a former homemaker.<ref name="LewisGuardian">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/nov/17/bonnie-tyler-my-family-values |title=Bonnie Tyler: My family values |last=Lewis |first=Roz |date=17 November 2012 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=5 January 2015}}</ref> She grew up in a four-bedroom [[council house]] with three sisters and two brothers.<ref name="LewisGuardian" /> Her siblings had varied music tastes, exposing her to artists such as [[Elvis Presley]], [[Frank Sinatra]] and [[the Beatles]].<ref name="TracksOfMyYears"/> Hopkins attended Rhydhir Comprehensive School in [[Neath]], Wales.<ref>{{cite news|title=Beautiful Bonny's 'birds and bees' bid for fame|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/607718221/|work=[[Neath Guardian]]|location=[[Neath|Neath, Wales]]|page=9|date=16 May 1976|access-date=19 October 2023|via=[[Newspapers.com]]|url-access=subscription}}</ref> She left school, age 16, with no [[Qualification types in the United Kingdom|qualifications]] and began working in a grocery shop.<ref name="SanerGuardian">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/may/13/bonnie-tyler-80s-now-interview |title=Bonnie Tyler: 'I'm not part of the 80s, I'm part of now' |last=Saner |first=Emine |date=13 May 2013 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=29 June 2015}}</ref> Hopkins and her family were deeply religious Protestants.<ref name="LewisGuardian" /> Her first public performance took place in a chapel as a child, singing the [[Anglican]] [[hymn]] "[[All Things Bright and Beautiful]]".<ref name="2009Recordings"/> 

In April 1969, Hopkins was entered into a local talent competition by her aunt, and she came second to an accordionist.{{sfn|Tyler|2023|page=32}} Inspired to pursue a career in singing,<ref name="forget">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/may/10/bonnie-tyler-husky-voice |title=Bonnie Tyler: 'Forget being a star – do it for the love of it' |date=10 May 2009 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=27 June 2015}}</ref> Hopkins found work as a backing singer for Bobby Wayne & the Dixies before forming her own band, Imagination.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/bonnie-tyler/pages/biography.shtml |title=Bonnie Tyler biography |date=17 November 2008 |publisher=[[BBC]]|access-date=27 June 2015}}</ref> It was around this time that she changed her name to Sherene Davis, to avoid being confused with Welsh folk singer [[Mary Hopkin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/bonnie-tyler/pages/biography.shtml|title=BBC – Bonnie Tyler biography|website=Bbc.co.uk|language=en-GB|access-date=27 April 2018}}</ref>