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Johnny Logan
Sign in to saveAlso known as Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard, Sean Sherrard, Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard O'Hagan
Irish singer and songwriter
Film & TV
Acting · Frankston, Victoria, Australia
Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard known professionally as Johnny Logan, is an Irish singer and musician. He is best known for being the first performer to win the Eurovision Song Contest as a lead singer twice.
Known for
- 70 Jahre ESC - More than Music — Self - Interviewee2026
- MTV - Euphoria! 50 Eurovision Hits! — Self (archive footage)2025
- Eurovision: 30 Unforgettable Moments — Self2023
- Kiwis große Partynacht — Self2023
- Die Beatrice Egli Show — Self2022
- The Masked Singer — Edelhert2020
- Schlager-Spaß — Self2018
- Privatkonzert — Self2017
- Xaviers Wunschkonzert Live — Self2017
- Wunderbares Schlagerland — Self2017
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Ireland
- Active from
- 1954
Discography
- Save Me1980
- What’s Another Year1980
- What’s Another Year1980
- Hold Me Now1987
- Hold Me Now1987
- I’m Not in Love1987
- Mention my Name1989
- Reach For Me1990
- Endless Emotion1992
- Long Lie the Rivers1992
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 106,214
- Total plays
- 594,507
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Johnny Logan (born Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard, 13 May 1954), is an Irish singer and composer. Nicknamed by some "Mr Eurovision". Logan was born in Frankston near Melbourne, Australia. His father was an Irish tenor, Patrick O'Hagan, who performed three times at The White House, for John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard Nixon. The family moved back to Ireland when Johnny was aged three. He learned the guitar and began composing his own songs by the age of thirteen. <a href="https://w
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,649x
- Microbial Fuel Cells: Methodology and Technology
· 2006 · cited 5,292x
- Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,039x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
· 2015 · cited 4,963x
- THE WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY IN DEVELOPMENT AND DISEASE
· 2004 · cited 4,375x
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Key facts
- Born
- Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard , ( 1954-05-13 ) 13 May 1954 (age 72) , Frankston, Victoria , Australia
- Origin
- County Dublin , Ireland
- Genres
- Pop Celtic
- Occupations
- Singer musician
- Instruments
- Vocals guitar
- Years active
- 1978–present
- Website
- johnnylogan .com
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.johnnylogan.com
- Image
- Johnny Logan, Eurovision 2024 1st semi-final rehearsal 10.jpg
- Number of children
- 4
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- Commons category
- Johnny Logan
- date of birth
- 1954-05-13
- nickname
- Mr. Euroviisuh
- name in native language
- Johnny Logan
- start of work period
- 1978-00-00
- social media followers
- 7170
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Seán Patrick Michael Sherrard (born 13 May 1954), also known professionally as Johnny Logan, is an Australian-born Irish singer, songwriter and musician. He is known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest twice, in 1980 and 1987. He also composed the winning song in 1992.
Logan won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980 with the song "What's Another Year", which topped the charts in eight countries. He won for a second time in 1987 with the song "Hold Me Now", which topped the charts in Israel, Ireland and Belgium and was a top ten hit in ten other music markets. For 36 years he was the only artist to have won the contest twice, until Loreen's second victory in 2023.