Latvia: Sudden Lights with the song “Aijā” to Eurovision 2023
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Sudden Lights won Latvia's national selection, Supernova 2023, and will be represeting the nation with “Aijā” at Eurovision 2023 in Liverpool.
Latvia held this evening the final show of Supernova 2023, the traditional national selection format used to determine the country's Eurovision hopefuls over the recent years.
The final show of Supernova was hosted by Ketija Šēnberga and Lauris Reiniks. Ketija previously had the honor to host Supernova in 2015, 2016, 2019,2020 and 2022. Lauris represented Latvia in Riga in ESC 2003 as member of F.L.Y. performing“Hello From Mars”.
Besides the competing acts on the show as guest appeared: Duncan Laurence the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 winner, Eliza Legzdina joined by Beanie of Rudimental.
Following last week's semifinal show, a total of 10 acts will compete in the Latvian national final:
Luīze – “You To Hold Me”
Raum – “Fake Love”
Toms Kalderauskis – “When It All Falls”
Patrisha – “Hush”
Sudden Lights – “Aijā”
24.Avēnija – “You Said”
Avéi – “Let Me Go”
Markus Riva – “Forever”
The results
The result was influenced by public voting and by the votes of a jury. Here is how the scoreboard turned out once all votes were counted, declaring the winner of Supernova 2023 and Latvia's Eurovision 2023 hopefuls. Patrisha finished second behind Sudden Lights, while in 3rd place came 24. Avēnija.
A few words about Sudden Lights
Sudden Lights was founded in 2012 by Andrejs Reinis Zitmanis and Mārtiņš Matīss Zemītis. Later, Kārlis Matīss Zitmanis and Kārlis Vārtiņš joined the band. In 2015 the group won the first prize in the Pirmā Plate competition for emerging artists, thanks to which they had the opportunity to record their first studio single, Tik savādi. The debut album Priekšpilsētas was released in 2017, and was presented on April 12, 2018 at the group's first concert, which was held at the Daile music center. In 2018, Sudden Lights participated in Supernova, the Latvian selection program for the annual Eurovision Song Contest, where they placed 2nd with the single "Just Fine". In the same year they opened five concerts of Prāta Vētra's Skārda bungu tūre tour. In 2019 they released their second studio album "Vislabāk ir tur, kur manis nav", which they promoted with their first national tour as headliner between February and March 2020. Their third studio album, "Miljards vasaru", was released in 2022.
News Source: LTV/ Wikipedia
Image: LTV/ Lauris Vīksne
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Melina F.
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