Johnny Logan leapt into the international spotlight with a hands-down victory for Ireland in the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest, after which his winning song, 'What's another year?', quickly shot to number one in the UK chart, and sold three million copies. At the time, many people assumed that he was Irish, but in fact he was born in Frankstown, near Melbourne, Australia, 13^th May 1954. His real name is Sean Patrick Michael Sherrard, and his father, the renowned Irish Tenor, Patrick O'Hagen, once sang for President Kennedy in the White House.The family moved to Ireland when Johnny was aged three, and by the time he was thirteen, he had learned to play guitar, and was writing songs. One of his earliest musical influences was The Dubliners, an immensely popular Irish traditional band.After working as an apprentice electrician, and performing in folk and blues clubs for a time, in 1977 he successfully auditioned for the male title role in the Irish musical, Adam and Eve.Two years later, he wrote a song that came third in the National Song Contest. The composer Shay Healy heard it and asked Logan to sing his 'What's another year?' in the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest. After his sensational win, Logan suffered the burdens that success often brings. Different management and record companies argued over his services and he worked himself into the ground for a year and a half, touring constantly, before taking six months off to re-charge his batteries.In 1984, he wrote the runner-up in the Eurovision Song Contest, 'Terminal 3' sung by Linda Martin and in 1987 Johnny made a triumphant personal comeback to the competition when he won for the second time, (no one else had ever won it twice as a performer). He sang his own composition, 'Hold Me Now', which also rose to number two in the UK chart. In the same year, he was in the best-sellers again with ' I'm Not In Love', and also appeared in The Royal Variety Performance at the London Palladium.In 1992, Logan completed a hat trick of European successes when he wrote Linda Martin's winning song for Ireland, 'Why Me?' He also released a new solo-album 'Endless Emotion'.

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