Eurovision 2024: Latvia’s Second Rehearsal!
Next artist to step on the cross-like stage of Malmö Arena and try to win one of the ten tickets for the Final is Dons from Latvia, who is performing his song, “Hollow“.
Who is Dons?
Dons is one of Latvia’s most famous singers and songwriters. His real name is Artūrs Šingirejs, and he was born in 1984, the year when Sweden marked its second win in the Contest. Dons has also won Latvian Music Recording Awards’ “Top Hit” not once, but eight times for the most played song on the radio. However, the records for him do not stop there.
He has also released eight solo albums, he has won “Best Pop Album” twice and “Best Rock Album” once, while he has also won numerous awards, including Latvijas Radio’s Muzikālās Banka “Song of the Year” five times.
Moreover, Dons began his carrer back in 2003 through the Latvian reality show “Talantu Fabrika“. Since then, he has also released a duet album, while his debut album, “Lights On” (2006), was mostly in English.
Let’s remember here that although Dons won the National Final of Latvia, Supernova 2024, hence he is a member of our Eurovision 2024 community, he had also tried to represent Latvia twice in the past, in 2010 with his song “My Religion Is Freedom“, and in 2014 with “Pēdējā Vēstule“, both finishing in second place.
The rehearsal:
The staging for this features a huge circular prop (maybe three or four metres in diameter), that Dons stands in at the start of the song. It doesn’t move or spin or light up, but it does create a really powerful focal point on stage.
Latvia second rehearsal Eurovision 2024. Credit: Sarah Louise Bennett/EBU
Dons is wearing his trademark royal blue sleeveless pantsuit , and he’s backed by an LED wall of gently pulsing lights and circles. The lighting effects are actually really clever – lots of slow-moving blue spotlights in the verses that kick into much brighter, whiter lights in the chorus. They feel like searchlights, and it gives this whole performance a MOOD.
Latvia second rehearsal Eurovision 2024. Credit: Sarah Louise Bennett/EBU
After today’s second rehearsals a recap video will be published on the official Youtube channel! Stay tuned!
The Dress Rehearsal for Latvia and the rest of Semi Final 2 is scheduled for Wednesday the 8th of May!
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Source: eurovision.tv
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