Latvia: Supernova 2022 competing entries go public

Latvia: Supernova 2022 competing entries go public
Tuesday, 04 January 2022

  • The Latvian national broadcaster, has revealed the competing entries of Supernova 2022, the show that will select the Baltic state's Eurovision 2022 representative and entry.

    The national broadcaster, LTV, has opted for one more year to determine the nation's Eurovision hopeful through the traditional format of Supernova. LTV receivied this year a total of 130 songs for the ESC 2022 national selection of Supernova, which marks a record number of submissions for the competition. 

    With the semi final set for February 5 and the Grand final show  scheduled for one week after on February 12, 2022, LTV revealed today the 16 competing entries of the national selection. 

     

    The 16 entries that will compete in Supenova 2022 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.

     

    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

    Image: Eurovoix