It’s the first Super Saturday of the year, and Latvia’s national final, Supernova, has just concluded its semi-final. Fourteen acts competed to qualify, and only ten acts could move on to the final next Saturday, 11 February. The running order was as follows: 01. Artūrs Hatti – “Love Vibes” 02. Alise Haijima – “Tricky” 03. Inspo – “Sway” 04. Toms …
We’re excited ahead of Latvia’s Supernova semi-final to release a new interview with Artūrs Hatuļevs! Artūrs Hatti is participating in the Latvian national selection for the first time this year amidst working on his debut album, set to be released later this year. As an artist he has been performing for over three years, and sees a potential Eurovision participation …
We’re excited to bring you another interview here at ESCUnited today, this time with Latvian band Inspo. The band Inspo is a musical duo made up of Aivars and Nadīnas, who met just before their debut in Supernova last year with the song “A Happy Place”. Both Aivars and Nadīnas are greatly inspired by movie scores, indie music, and downturned …
All opinions expressed in this article are those of the person quoted and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the other team members or ESC United as a whole. Supernova. This is where fourteen Latvian acts will compete for the change to represent their country at the Eurovision Song Contest this year in Liverpool. The last time and so …
Europe woke up today to news from Latvijas Televīzija (LTV), in that we now know the schedule for Supernova, Latvia’s national final format. A semifinal for the competition will air on Saturday, 4 February, with the final airing the week after on Saturday, 11 February. This bumps up the number of national finals scheduled to conclude on 11 February to …
It’s currently the off-season in Eurovision Land, but it doesn’t mean that things aren’t happening behind the scenes. Per sources at ESCToday, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have confirmed their participation in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2023. Next year’s contest is confirmed to be hosted in the United Kingdom with the city selection process currently underway. The confirmations of these …
As promised by the EBU yesterday, Eurovision fans will be getting a special treat to cure their Post Eurovision Depression – the live-on-tapes from Eurovision 2022. This was also done last year following the contest in Rotterdam, although that year they edited them together as a YouTube livestream for the semi-final non-qualifiers and the grand final acts. This year, due …
Despite the main contest having wrapped just two week ago, decisions are already being made by the broadcasters about the Junior Eurovision contest happening in December. Last year a total of 19 countries participated in the contest, and at the end of the event Armenia’s Malena won with the song “Qami Qami”. Who do we know is out? Prior to …
Turin, 04 May 2022 The second run of rehearsals have kicked off in Turin. Since these rehearsals are the first open to the public, we’ll be able to give you a detailed report on what you can expect of all participating nations. Note: Images and videos will be added once they go online on the official channel. Country: Albania Act: …
To read about Citi Zēni in their own words, read our interview with the band from February 4. No Eurovision act this season has made a bigger splash than Citi Zēni did in the first 15 seconds of their Supernova-winning entry “Eat Your Salad”. So it should have come as no surprise that Latvia, Eurovision’s notorious wildcard nation, chose them …
