Johnny Logan (singer)

Johnny Logan (real name Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard) was born near Melbourne, Australia, on 13 May 1954. His father was a very well known Irish tenor, Patrick O'Hagan, who performed three times at The White House, for John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon.

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Melbourne - Australia - 13 May - 1954 - Tenor - White House - John F. Kennedy - Lyndon B. Johnson - Richard Nixon

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Johnny Logan has helped to win the Eurovision Song Contest three times for Ireland. What's Another Year?, composed by Shay Healy and sung by Johnny, won in the Netherlands in 1980; Hold Me Now, which he both wrote and sang, won in 1987 in Brussels; and in 1992 in Sweden he was the composer of the winning song Why Me?, sung by Linda Martin.

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Eurovision Song Contest - Ireland - 1980 - 1987 - 1992 - Linda Martin

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It could very easily have been four wins, as an earlier collaboration with Linda Martin, Terminal 3 - which he rather sheepishly admitted had been so named simply because he happened to be sitting in Terminal 3 of Heathrow Airport when he wrote it - had finished runner-up to the winning Swedish song Diggi-loo, diggi-ley in 1984.

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Johnny is very popular in Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark, across the continent he is known as "Mister Eurovision".

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Germany - The Netherlands - Belgium - Denmark - Continent

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