Singer Bonnie Tyler faces long road to recovery after emerging from induced coma

Singer Bonnie Tyler has emerged from a coma but remains "very unwell" in intensive care, an update on her official website says.

The gravelly voiced, Grammy-nominated pop star, 75, was hospitalized last month on Faro, Portugal, where she lives, for emergency intestinal surgery. She was later placed in an induced coma.

She is no longer in a coma and "although her condition is improving, it is a slow process. Her doctors remain confident that she will make a good recovery but it is going to take time," the statement posted Monday said.

Tyler's shows scheduled through August were cancelled or postponed, but "we are still hopeful that our shows in the autumn will go ahead," the statement said.

Tyler is best known for the chart-topping 1980s power ballad Total Eclipse of the Heart, an irresistibly bombastic karaoke favourite that gains new fans every time there is a solar or lunar eclipse.

The coal miner's daughter from Wales had an earlier hit in 1978 with It's a Heartache before winning a place in pop history with Total Eclipse of the Heart, written by Meat Loaf's producer and songwriter, Jim Steinman.