He is Ireland's most successful Eurovision act and the only person to have won the Eurovision Song Contest more than once.
However, Johnny Logan has another thing to celebrate as he is approaching 50 years of marriage to his wife Ailís.
He has been married to Ailís for 47 years and was recently asked what has been the secret to the success of their long relationship.
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“Possibly the fact that I’m away working all of the time so she gets a break from me,” he told RSVP, jokingly. “Also, that there is a lot of affection and trust there and an awful lot of love."
Johnny's claim to fame is singing or composing the winning songs at the Eurovision Song Contest on three occasions.
He won the Eurovision with What’s Another Year in The Hague in 1980, much to the delight of Ireland. He won again with Hold Me Now in Brussels in 1985, and completed the hat-trick when his song Why Me? saw Linda Martin win the contest in Malmo in 1992.
When it comes to his family life, the couple live in Co Meath and have three adult sons, Jack, Adam and Fionn.
Johnny’s wife Ailís became a teacher and kept things running at home while he was away touring. However, he said it was challenging to be away so much from your family.
“It’s not a natural life and it’s very hard on everyone,” Johnny said.
“It’s no great revelation to anyone that it’s very hard to maintain any family through the music business. And like everybody else, you have ups and downs and you try to find your way through them.”
While his son Jack has since followed him into the music world, Adam and Fionn work in IT and Johnny is very proud of all three of his boys.
“Adam works with Diebold Nixdorf [an American financial and retail technology company] and Fionn designs computer games and works for a company in Dublin,” he said.
With one son working as a musician, Johnny said he thinks it’s much harder to make it in the music industry these days and is not the same business he grew up in.
“When I was growing up, you had to serve your time if you wanted to be a singer. You had to play for years doing pub gigs or cabaret shows or being in a showband. You learned your stagecraft that way," he said.
“Now you just have to appear on a TV show and suddenly there’s dancers around you and an incredible sound. You think it’s normal to go from nowhere to playing stadiums, but it’s not and there’s no line in between, unfortunately.”
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