Latvia: Supernova 2023 acts and entries released

• LTV, Latvia's national broadcaster has released the competing acts and songs of Supernova 2023, the show that will select the Eurovision 2023 representative. 

  Latvia will be selecting their Eurovision 2023 representative via the 8th edition of Supernova. The show will be presented by Ketija Šēnberga and Lauris Reiniks.

  Ketija is no stranger to the audience as she has  previously hosted the show six time,  in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2022. Lauris  was the nation's hopeful on home soil when the contest was held in Riga in 2003 as part of F.L.Y. singing “Hello From Mars” and will be hosting for a second consecutive year. 

  LTV received 121 songs for this year's national selection out of which 15 acts were shorlisted by a jury consistef of music experts, former ESC representatives and foreign music professionals, the names of which will be revealed after the contest is over. 

  Namely the 15 acts to take the Supernova 2023 stage along with their songs are: 

  • 24.Avēnija – “You Said”
  • Adriana Miglāne – “Like I Wanna”
  • Alise Haijima – “Tricky”
  • Artūrs Hatti – “Love Vibes”
  • Avéi – “Let Me Go”
  • Inspo – “Sway”
  • Justs – “Stranger”
  • Katrine Miller – “Beaten Down”
  • Luīze – “You To Hold Me”
  • Markus Riva – “Forever”
  • Patrisha – “Hush”
  • Raum – “Fake Love”
  • Saule – “Finally Happy”
  • Sudden Lights – “Aijā”
  • Toms Kalderauskis – “When It All Falls”

   

  All songs are available to listen HERE

  Among the contestants we see the return of Justs who had represented Latvia back at Eurovision 2016 with the song 'Heartbeat'. 

   

  Supernova 2023

  The 2023 edition of Supernova will include one semi final show set for February 4,2023 while one week after the Grand final will take place on February 11, 2023. The results in both shows will be determined by jury and public voting with a 50% share each. 

   

  Latvia in Eurovision 

  Latvia participated in Eurovision first time back in 2000. The country on its debut participation, with Brainstorm finished in 3rd place with the song My Star. It didn’t take long for Latvia to win the contest, since in  2002, with Marie N’s I Wanna the Baltic country was crowned winner.

  Latvia only participated in 2002 thanks to the withdrawal of Portugal from the contest, as Latvia’s poor result in 2001 had relegated them from the 2002 contest. From 2009 to 2014 Latvia met disappointing results as it failed to qualify to the Grand final. In 2015 achieved its best results the latest year with Animata and her Love Injected which ended in 6th place. 

  Samanta Tīna won the Latvian Eurovision national selection, Supernova 2020,  with her song “Still Breathing” last . However her Eurovision journey never reached its destination in Rotterdam as the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless the Latvian act was selected internally to compete in Rotterdam in 2021 with her entry 'The Moon is Rising' which competed in the second semi final show but unfortunately didn't qualify to the final.

  Last year, Supernova 2022 winners, Citi Zeni, represented the nation with their song 'Eat your salad'  by competing in the first semi final where they failed to qualify finishing in the 14th place.

   

  News Source/Image:  LTV

   

   

   

   

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