Young songstress Irene Logan has made a public pronouncement that, likely to shake her perhaps long-lasting relationship with fashion giant and her former employer, Papa Kwame Osei Ghana Limited, popularly known as PKOG.
Speaking on ETV’ Celebrity Show, Irene told hostess Dzifa Smith that the fashion company owed her some cash amount. Before she entered music industry, she said PKOG was her first employer but the company didn’t treat her well.
According to her, she had worked for the company for six months and for that period that she worked, she was only paid for the first month. The rest of her monthly salary is yet to be paid to her. However, she didn’t mention how much the company owed her and how much she was supposed to be paid monthly. She was on the show with actor John Dumelo and fellow musician A-Plus. Her comments were however a response to a question regarding her lowest paid job when she started her career.
The beautiful lady, who split from the group Irene & Jane, after winning Charterhouse’ Stars of the Future season one, said because she was not paid, she decided to move on. She added that she ended up at Citi Fm and through that, she joined Stars of the Future reality show. Though Irene has lived most of her life in Ghana, she is a Liberian (born to Liberian parents.) her father and brother died when she was really young. Upon moving to Ghana, her mother got married to a Ghanaian.
She grew up surrounded by music; her step-dad was a guitarist and singer while her mother sang professionally too. She had her first go at a microphone at 3. At age 5, she performed at the National Theatre with the Christian Action Faith Ministry. It was a gospel rock show where they sang ‘People need the Lord’.
By the time she was in Achimota School, she was a choir leader, she went on to perform at various places, including weddings, churches, and even Miss Teen Personality 2002. She also won an opera singing competition and a song writing competition for a Fanta song she composed with some friends.
She was part of a group called S—Touch which also featured Salimi Akill, Richie, Ferguson and Selassie Hanson. She and Jane were discovered through Charterhouse’s Stars of the Future competition where she emerged the winner and declared Ghana’s international music star. Jane placed third.
They blended their talents and had thrilling experiences working together after spending most of their lives as solo artistes. Their debut, which was the hit single ‘Heat it up’, featured Nana Tuffour aka NeezBuck (University of Pennsylvania) while their ‘Unveiled’ album also featured Amandzeba Nat Brew, Blu3 (Uganda) and Wutah. Recently, they split and Irene has recorded ‘Runaway’ with Asem which is still making a lot of waves on the music scene.
