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Eurovision 2024: Latvia’s Second Rehearsal!

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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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Latvia: Will country’s pop star Dons compete in Supernova 2024 with “Hollow”?

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Dons is Latvia’s biggest pop star right now, and his first English-language single release in ages has many believing we’ll see him avenge the country’s insult at Eurovision 2024.

Hollow is the first English-language song by Dons (Artūrs Šingirejs) since 2006. The comments accompanying this release on social media have been very positive, with most speculating and hoping that Dons’ participation in Supernova 2024 will be, the country’s national final for the selection of Latvia’s participation in Eurovision 2024.

Dons attempted to represent Latvia twice in the past and both times came second in the national selection.

The participants of Supernova 2024 will be revealed in January. In February we will be able to see the live performances of the artists in TV shows. The public who can vote for their favorite artists together with the jury in the final. The number of shows and the exact format of Supernova 2024 have yet to be announced.

Sudden Lights represented Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with their song “Aija” and finished 11th in the semi-final.

https://youtu.be/SEykwl9X9SY

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Latvia confirms participation. The search for Eurovision 2024 begins!

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Latvia has joined the list of countries confirming their participation for Eurovision 2024.  The first details for their selection process have been revealed today.  First of all, Latvia will start their search for their new Eurovision representative through their national final Supernova.  The country has renewed for another year Supernova as their national final for Eurovision.

Supernova 2024

Starting from tomorrow until December 1st, 2023, the applications are open.  Artists can send their proposals via public broadcaster’s LTV website.  LTV will announce the final list of participants for Supernova 2024 on January 2024.  Following the first announcement of the songs, the wishful representatives will compete in a semi-final and a grand final that will take place in February.  A split vote from the audience and a jury will decide the winner of Supernova which will represent Latvia in Malmö.

This will be Latvia’s 24th Eurovision representative.  The Baltic country won the contest in 2002 with Marie N’s I Wanna.  Unfortunately, Latvia has struggled to qualify for the final in recent times. Last time we watched Latvia in the final was in 2016.

Who will represent Latvia in 2024?  Will they break the non-qualification streak?

Source: LTV

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