Latvia: Supernova 2022 wildcard voting opens with 10 acts in the run

Latvia: Supernova 2022 wildcard voting opens with 10 acts in the run
Monday, 10 January 2022

  • The voting that will determine the 17th and last spot in the semifinals of the Latvian national selection, Supernova 2022, has opened. 

    Following the release of the 16 acts and songs that will be competing in the Latvian national selection for Eurovision 2022, LTV , has decided this year to issue a wildcard for the semifinals, adding one more spot in the semfinal heat. 

    The 17th act to compete in the semifinals of Supernova 2022 will be determined through an online voting which opened today and will run until 14 January, 23:59 pm local time. 

    A total of 10 acts are in the run for that last spot in the semifinals of Supernova 2022. Namely the acts for which the audience can cast their vote for are: 

    1. Antra Stafecka and Atis Ieviņš – “Call the Lights”
    2. Dārta Stepanova – “Brīnumzeme” (Wonderland)
    3. Edvards Strazdiņš – “Open Road”
    4. Katrīna Dimanta – “My Voice”
    5. Marta Ritova – “Let Me Go”
    6. Mārtiņš Strods – “One More Time”
    7. Miks Galvanovskis – “I’m Just A Sinner”
    8. Rihards Bērziņš – “1+1”
    9. Tētis – “Labākie vārdi” (The best words)
    10. Toms Kalderauskis – “Naked smile”

    All songs are availiable and can be listened to online here. 

     

    The 16 acts that already have secured a spot in the semifinals and will be taking part in the national selection are: 

    • Bermudu Divstūris – “Bad”
    • Markus Riva – “If You’re Gonna Love Me”
    • Aminata – “I’m Letting You Go”
    • BUJĀNS – “He, She, You & Me”
    • Citi Zēni – “Eat Your Salad”
    • Inspo – “A Happy Place”
    • Miks Dukurs – “First Love”
    • Beatrise Heislere – “On the way home”
    • the COCO’NUTS – “In and out of the dark”
    • KATŌ – “Promises”
    • Elīna Gluzunova – “Es pabiju tur” (I was there)
    • Mēs Jūs Mīlam – “Rich Itch”
    • Linda Rušeniece – “Pay My Own Bills”
    • RAUM – “Plans”
    • Zelma – “How”
    • Patriks Peterson – “Can’t Get You Outta My Head”

    This year's national selection sees the return of four former ESC representatives. Namely, Bermudu Divstūris represented Latvia in 2011 as Musiqq with “Angel in Disguise”. Aminata defended the Latvian colors in 2015 with “Love Injected”, which finished 6th, Latvia's best result so far. Aminata was also behind the lyrics of the Latvian entries in 2016, 2020 and 2021. Intars Busulis, who represented Latvia in 2009 with “Probka”, is taking part in Supernova now as member of BUJĀNS . Also, Ralf Eilands, , represented Latvia in 2013 as part of PeR with “Here We Go” is competing now as a member of Mēs Jūs Mīlam.

    Supernova 2022 will kick off with the semi-final show on February 5, 2022 with the Grand final show set for one week later on February 12, 2022. 

     

    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.  In 2018  the country was represented by Laura Rizzotto with her song Funny girl which finished 12th in the semi final failing to qualify to the final .

    In 2019 Supernova winner Carousel represented the countey in Tel Aviv with their entry That night. The song didn’t make it to the final marking Latvia’s third successive failure to qualify to the final.

    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. 

    News Source: LTV