United Kingdom, Feb. 3 -- Bonnie Tyler picked her name from a newspaper after her record company asked her to change it.

The 73-year-old pop veteran was born Gaynor Hopkins, but she "never really liked the name" so she started calling herself Sherene Davies when she first started out in the music industry.

During an appearance on BBC Radio Wales, she said of her first stage name: "[I] never really liked the name [Gaynor Hopkins] ...

"When I was in my band Bobby Wayne and the Dixies, I was called Sherene - that was my sister's first little girls name, and I loved that name."

However, she was asked to come up with something else after she signed a record deal with RCA Records because label executives worried Sherene "sounded like a bell...