Latvia: Supernova 2020 acts and entries go public

Latvia: Supernova 2020 acts and entries go public
Monday, 13 January 2020

  • Latvia’s national broadcaster, LTV, has released the 26 acts and entries of the country’s national selection, Supernova, from which 8 will make it to the national final.

    The 26 acts and entries of Supernova 2020 are :

    Annemarija Moiseja – Undo
    Aivo Oskis – Dive Deep
    Miks Dukurs – I’m Falling For You
    Shanti – Voices In My Mind
    Maia – Make It Real
    Rūta Ķergalve – Izgaismots
    Toms Kalderauskis – Be My Truth
    Katrīna Bindere – I Will Break Your Heart
    Antra Stafecka & Atis Ieviņš – Coming Over
    Samanta Tīna – Still Breathing
    Madara – Māras zeme
    Elizabete Gaile – For You
    Sabīne Blūma Blūmane – Beauty Will Save The World
    DRIKSNA – Stay
    Līva – Not That Important To You
    Seleste – Like Me
    Signe & Jānis – Inner Light
    Alise Haijama – Me Me Song
    Edgars Kreilis – Tridymite
    ANNNA – Polyester
    Katrīna Dimanta – Heart Beats
    Alekss Silvers – Again
    Markus Riva – Impossible
    Laika Upe – All My Roads
    Audiokvartāls – Connection
    Bad Habits – Sail With You

    Listen to the songs in the following video:

     

    The oustanding names of Supernova 2020

    Among the 26 candidate acts of this year’s Supernova are several that are no strangers to the Eurovision family. Namely, Katrīna Dimanta, had represented Latvia in Eurovision 2014 as member of Aarzemnieki and the song “Cake to Bake” Markus Riva who has been taking part in the national selection since 2014 and Samanta Tina who will make her 6th attempt.On the list is Miks Dukurs, five times participant in the national selection but has never reached the final, while Edgars Kreilis has taken part the last three years, finishing 6th in 2018 with the song “Younger Days”, and in 2019 with his entry “Cherry Absinthe”. Madara had paricipated in 2018 with “Esamiba” finishing in 3rd place while Aivo Oskis, in last year’s national final with “Somebody’s Got My Lover” came last. Alekss Silvers with “Fireworks” (written byAminata) and the group Laika Upe with the entry “Listen to the Way that I Breathe”, participated in last year’s selection.

    THE EUROVISION STORY SO FAR

    Latvia joined the Eurovision family 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.