Latvia: LTV opens submissions for Supernova 2022

Latvia: LTV opens submissions for Supernova 2022
Thursday, 07 October 2021

  • The Latvian national broadcaster, LTV, has opened the submission for the country's ESC 2022 national selection, Supernova 2022. 

    Latvia, besides last year which saw Samanta Tina internally selected for Rotterdam after the 2020 cancellation, has chosen all its Eurovision hoepfuls via national finals. While in the past years a variety of formats and under different names were used to select the Eurovision acts, since 2015 the broadcaster has been holdng 'Supernova' as the nation's national selection format.  

    Thus, LTV has released the rules and terms for Supernova 2022, while the acts and composers who are interested in in taking part in the national selection should send in their proposals until December 7, 2021. 

    A special LTV committee will assess all submitted applications and pick out the ones that will advance to the national seletion shows. However, LTV has reserved the right to invite itself acts and composers to takepart in the national final. 

    The Supernova shows will be aired on LTV and are exepcted to hit the screen in February. 

     

    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. 

     

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