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Latvia: Supernova 2023 jury members have been revealed!

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Latvian broadcaster LTV has revealed the jury members who voted in Supernova, the country’s national final, determining 50% of the result to select the Baltic country’s representatives for Eurovision 2023.

The eight-member jury consisted of the following six Latvians and two international jurors :

  • Anna Platpīre – LTV content editor
  • Arvīds Babris – Director of LTV
  • Aija Auškāpa – Director of the Prāta vētra record label
  • Karīna Tropa – Singer and vocal coach
  • Maija Sējāne – Singer and music producer
  • Magnuss Eriņš – Radio personality and DJ
  • Gediminas Jaunius (Lithuania) – TV director and producer
  • Edward van de Vendel (Netherlands) – Journalist

The jury awarded its 12 points to the band Sudden Lights, who won Supernova 2023 representing Latvia in Liverpool with the song Aijā.

Latvia narrowly missed out on qualifying for the Eurovision 2023 Grand Final by finishing 11th in the First Semi-Final with 34 points, just 3 points behind Serbia. It is worth noting that Sudden Lights received 8 points from the “rest of the world” vote in the First Semi-Final.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEykwl9X9SY

Source: LTV

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Latvia: Eurovisionfun Reacts to Latvia Eurovision 2023 Entry ”Aijā” (video)

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Supernova 2023, the national final of Latvia with the aim of choosing the country’s next representative for the Eurovision 2023 contest, was completed for another year! The big winners of the evening were the group “Sudden Lights” with the song “Aijā“.

The Eurovisionfun team once again watched and reacted to the live performance of Latvia’s entry for the upcoming Eurovision contest and ! Enjoy Bogiannos Apostolos, Matamis Apostolis and Roupakias Christos in a reaction video, with detailed commentary on Latvia’s participation, for 2023!

Some days before the national final of Supernova, “Sudden Lights” gave us an exclusive interview on our YouTube channel:

Watch the live performance of “Aijā” from Supernova 2023:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQkKJNLuO_Y

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Latvia: Sudden Lights with “Aijā” in Eurovision 2023!

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After one Semi-Final and a Grand Final, Supernova 2023, the selection process for the next Latvian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, has just finished.

The big winner of Supernova was Sudden Lights with the song “Aijā“, who will travel with the Latvian flag to Liverpool.

The Participants:

  1. Alise Haijima – “Tricky”
  2. Luīze – “You To Hold Me”
  3. Raum – “Fake Love”
  4. Toms Kalderauskis – “When It All Falls”
  5. Artūrs Hatti – “Love Vibes”
  6. Patrisha – “Hush”
  7. Sudden Lights – “Aijā”
  8. 24. Avēnija – “You Said”
  9. Avéi – “Let Me Go”
  10. Markus Riva – “Forever”

The Results:

The song with the highest number of votes based on the combination of votes from a jury panel and the Latvian public will be declared the winner.

Τhe results were as follows:

  1. Sudden Lights – “Aijā”
  2. Patrisha – “Hush”
  3. 24. Avēnija – “You Said”
  4. Markus Riva – “Forever”
  5. Avéi – “Let Me Go”
  6. Raum – “Fake Love”
  7. Toms Kalderauskis – “When It All Falls”
  8. Alise Haijima – “Tricky”
  9. Artūrs Hatti – “Love Vibes”
  10. Luīze – “You To Hold Me”

Sudden Light will wave the Latvian flag in Liverpool with “Aijā“!

Don’t miss the exclusive interview from Sudden Lights on our Youtube channel some days ago!

 

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Latvia: Supernova 2023 Grand Final tonight!

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The time has come for Latvia to choose its participant in Eurovision 2023. The Grand Final of Supernova 2023, the process of nominating the representative of the Baltic country in the 67th Eurovision Song Contest, is taking place today.

Participants

Ten songs will compete in tonight’s final of Supernova, with the winner being the Latvian representative at Eurovision 2023. The final result will be based on the vote of the public and the jury.

The participants of tonight’s semifinal are:

  1. Alise Haijima – “Tricky”
  2. Luīze – “You To Hold Me”
  3. Raum – “Fake Love”
  4. Toms Kalderauskis – “When It All Falls”
  5. Artūrs Hatti – “Love Vibes”
  6. Patrisha – “Hush”
  7. Sudden Lights – “Aijā”
  8. 24. Avēnija – “You Said”
  9. Avéi – “Let Me Go”
  10. Markus Riva – “Forever”

Presenters of Supenova 2023 will be Ketija Šēnberga and Lauris Reiniks.

The semifinal of Supernova 2023 starts at 20:05 CET and will last two hours. You can watch it through on LTV1, by clicking HERE.

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Latvia: Supernova running order out now!

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LTV has released the running order of the songs competing in the Grand Final of Supernova 2023.  Latvian Grand Final for Eurovision will take place on February 11, 2023.

10 songs are still competing to represent Latvia in Liverpool.  During this national final, Eurovision winner Duncan Laurence (Netherlands 2019) will perform as an interval act.  Elīza Legzdiņa and Beanie from Rudimental are also scheduled to perform in Supernova.

The 10 competing acts will perform in the following running order:

  1. Alise Haijima – “Tricky”
  2. Luīze – “You To Hold Me”
  3. Raum – “Fake Love”
  4. Toms Kalderauskis – “When It All Falls”
  5. Artūrs Hatti – “Love Vibes”
  6. Patrisha – “Hush”
  7. “Sudden Lights” – “Aijā”
  8. “24. Avēnija” – “You Said”
  9. Avéi – “Let Me Go”
  10. Markus Riva – “Forever”

Citi Zēni represented Latvia in 2022 with the song Eat Your Salad.  They did not manage to qualify however and ended in 14th place in their semi-final.

Source: Eurovoix

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Latvia: The results of Supernova’s 2023 semi-final!

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The semi-final of Latvia’s national final, Supernova 2023, was completed successfully and the 10 finalists of Supernova were decided.

A total of fourteen candidates competed in the semi-final, claiming ten tickets for Saturday’s grand final. Presenters of the evening were Ketija Šēnberga and Lauris Reiniks.

The participants:

The participants of tonight’s semifinal were:

  1. Artūrs Hatti – “Love Vibes”
  2.  Alise Haijima – “Tricky”
  3.  Inspo – “Sway”
  4. Toms Kalderauskis – “When It All Falls”
  5. Katrine Miller – “Beaten Down”
  6. Justs – “Stranger”
  7. Adriana Miglāne – “Like I Wanna”
  8. 24. Avēnija – “You Said”
  9. Markus Riva – “Forever”
  10. Avéi – “Let Me Go”
  11. Patrisha – “Hush”
  12. Raum – “Fake Love”
  13. Luīze – “You To Hold Me”
  14. Sudden Lights – “Aijā”

50% of the results in the two shows (semifinals and a final) comes from the jury, while the other 50% from the audience.

The qualifiers:

The qualifiers of tonight’s semifinal were as follows:

  1. 24. Avēnija – “You Said”
  2. Alise Haijima – “Tricky”
  3. Artūrs Hatti – “Love Vibes”
  4. Avéi – “Let Me Go”
  5. Luīze – “You To Hold Me”
  6. Markus Riva – “Forever”
  7. Patrisha – “Hush”
  8. Raum – “Fake Love”
  9. Sudden Lights – “Aijā”
  10. Toms Kalderauskis – “When It All Falls”

Last year’s Supernova winner was Citi Zeni with “Eat Your Salad“. They ended up 14th in their semi-final with 55 points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM0_0WfuxSk

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Latvia: Supernova 2023 semi-final tonight!

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The time has come for Latvia to choose its participant in Eurovision 2023. The semifinal of Supernova 2023, the process of nominating the representative of the Baltic country in the 67th Eurovision Song Contest, is taking place today.

Participants

Fourteen songs will compete in tonight’s semifinal of Supernova, ten of which will advance to next Saturday’s grand final. The final result will be based on the vote of the public and the jury.

The participants of tonight’s semifinal are:

  1. Artūrs Hatti – “Love Vibes”
  2.  Alise Haijima – “Tricky”
  3.  Inspo – “Sway”
  4. Toms Kalderauskis – “When It All Falls”
  5. Katrine Miller – “Beaten Down”
  6. Justs – “Stranger”
  7. Adriana Miglāne – “Like I Wanna”
  8. 24. Avēnija – “You Said”
  9. Markus Riva – “Forever”
  10. Avéi – “Let Me Go”
  11. Patrisha – “Hush”
  12. Raum – “Fake Love”
  13. Luīze – “You To Hold Me”
  14. Sudden Lights – “Aijā”

Presenters of Supenova 2023 will be Ketija Šēnberga and Lauris Reiniks.

The semifinal of Supernova 2023 starts at 20:05 CET and will last two hours. You can watch it through on LTV1, by clicking HERE.

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Markus Riva: “I’ll keep trying until I represent Latvia at Eurovision” | Exclusive interview

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Markus Riva, is undoubtedly one of the most famous artists among the Eurovision fans! This year, he is trying to represent Latvia at Eurovision for the 9th year , and he is also the artist with the most appearances in their national final, Supernova. This year he will participate with the song “Forever“.

He spoke exclusively about his big dream to Eurovisionfun and to Apostolos Bogiannos and Stella Gialetzi.

Οn the question about his journey in Supernova so far, he told us:

“Wow, it’s been a long time! I hope that this journey is still ongoing and I want to believe that in the end I will succeed. Eurovision is my dream. This journey is unique and every year is different, I was twice in second place while some other times I didn’t manage to make it to the live shows. This shows us that there is no recipe, of course it takes hard work, but you can never be sure! It means a lot to me to achieve my goal and I will do my best!”

Markus also talked about his entry and how much he loves the 80’s vibe on it:

“The main message of my song is for people to try to stay away from the bad events that affect our lives! First it was the covid-19 pandemic, now we have bad events happening in Ukraine and all over the planet bad events are happening. So my goal was not to make a political song but an optimistic song that will lift people’s mood!”

Αlso, he revealed that his stage presentation is going to be epic, because he wants to leave his own mark on the contest!

About his favourite entries from Eurovision, Markus revealed:

“My favorite entry from Latvia is definitely Aminata’s “Love injected”. She is my friend and we also wrote a song together for supernova, it may not have been the most successful but it has a special place in my heart. More generally in Eurovision, the first entry that comes to my mind is Norway’s entry in 2013, “I feed you my love”. Also, from last year I really liked Sweden’s participation, “Ηold me closer” is definitely one of my favorite songs, but “Slomo” was also an impressive performance! I also really liked the winning song 2022, from Ukraine, as well as Jamala’s who won in 2016.”

Watch the full exclusive interview from Markus Riva:

Listen to his entry “FOREVER” from Supernova 2023:

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Latvia: Supernova Semifinal running order revealed!

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This Saturday, February 04 the Supernova semifinals will take place.  14 contestants will perform for the first time for the Latvian national final but only 10 will make it to the final.  The result will depend on the overall rating the acts get from  both the jury and the vote of the public.

Supernova Semifinals

This is the running order for the Supernova Semifinals:

1. Artūrs Hatti- “Love Vibes”

2. Alise Haijima-“Tricky”

3. Inspo- “Sway”

4. Toms Kalderauskis- “When It All Falls”

5. Katrine Miller- “Beaten Down”

6. Justs- “Stranger”

7. Adriana Miglāne- “Like I Wanna”

8. 24. Avēnija- “You Said”

9. Marcus Riva- “Forever”

10. Avéi- “Let Me Go”

11. Patrisha- “Hush”

12. Raum- “Fake Love”

13. Luīze- “You To Hold Me”

14. Sudden Lights- “Aija”

The songs and performers participating in the “Supernova” semi-finals were determined by a jury selected by LTV, which included representatives of the Latvian music industry, show and television, as well as foreign professionals.  LTV will reveal the names of the jury representatives only after the international Eurovision Song Contest in May for security reasons.

The winner of Supernova, who will be determined by the jury and the audience in the final February 11, will  represent Latvia at the Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool in May.

Source: Latvijas Sabiedriskie Mediji

Sudden Lights:”We want the audience to have the feeling of a rock concert” | Exclusive Interview

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The band Sudden Lights is participating in this year’s Latvian national final, Supernova 2023, in order to Wim the ticket that will lead them to the stage of Eurovision 2023. The band spoke exclusively to Bogiannos Apostolos and Matamis Apostolis from EurovisionFun about their participation in Supernova 2023, with the song “Aijā“.

They have known each other for many years, as they know each other from their common music school. The band had taken part in Supernova 2018 with the song “Just Fine” without  receiving the ticket for Eurovision, however as they stated this was the moment they entered the musical events of the country and indeed at a very young age. After this first attempt they got quite a few fans as well as many opportunities. For this year’s participation  at Supernova 2023, they themselves revealed to us:

“This year we have a very good feeling that we have something good to say and a strong message for both Latvian and European audiences!”

On the message behind their entry “Aijā”, the band stated that the song is a lullaby and that in the difficult times we live in, we all need a lullaby to be able to sleep. Then they revealed to us that the song was not written exclusively for the competition but during the preparation process of the new album they are preparing. About their stage performance at the national final, Sudden Lights said:

“On the semi-final stage we will be with our instruments and we want to bring the feeling of a rock concert on stage!”

Among their favorite Latvian entries in the contest, they mentioned the country’s first Eurovision entry, “Lucky Star“, as an important and emotional moment for their country. While as favorite entries of the competition they mentioned Maneskin and Barbara Pravi from 2021, as well as Alexander Rybak from 2009.

Finally they sang us a part of their song acapella .

Check out the exclusive Sudden Lights interview in the video below:

Listen to their entry for Supernova 2023:

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