Almost Every Latvian Eurovision Video Ever
We’ll be liveblogging the Eurovision Song Contest Saturday night, but in the preparation of this shining example of the -decadent West- popular culture, let’s take a history walk.
Here’s almost every Latvian Eurovision song ever.
2000 - the group Brainstorm performed “My star.” The group came in third, after Russia and Denmark, which won that competition held in Sweden. Not bad for a debut. Latvia was selected as the last 25th country to participate in the contest replacing Greece, which withdrew.
2001 - Arnis Mednis represented Latvia in the contest with a song “Too much”. Unfortunately, his performance was not found among the vast universes of YouTube. He came 16th.
2002 - Marie N (also known as Marija Naumova) with a song I wanna earned Latvia the right to host the next Eurovision Song Contest. She came first.
2003 - F.L.Y. performed Hello From Mars, which didn’t fair well among the earthlings on the European continent. They came 24th.
2004 - The rules were changed to accommodate more countries-participants. Latvia was represented by Fomins & Kleins with Dziesma par laimi, A Song About Happiness. Happy or not, the song didn’t qualify for the final.
2005 - Valters un Kaza sang The War is not Over. They came 5th.
2006 - Cosmos performed I hear your heart. Talented though they may have been, they came only 17th.
2007 - bonaparti.lv with Questa Notte. They came 16th.
May 11th, 2007 at 9.15
Estonia didn’t advance… again. Meh. :S
May 11th, 2007 at 9.19
Yes. I was disappointed because I really liked her. I would have liked to be her partner in crime….
Deepest regrets to Estonia.
My other surprise was Andorra. I thought they had a good song. Maybe because I was too accustomed to the punk rock music. But admittedly, on the video they were good. When they were singing live, they appeared nervous and didn’t sound so good.
May 24th, 2008 at 3.56
I am a big fan of Marija Naumova. I love to listen to her album “Ma voix ma voie”, with all songs in French. I was very happy to see her win back in 2002, although the song was pure pandering to the Eurovision format. She did give a great performance.
May 25th, 2008 at 3.11
Hei! Looks like you all are having a ball! I sure would like your kind of job!!
Irena