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PHOTO. A record number of songs have been submitted for the selection of the Eurovision Song Contest in Latvia


Samantha Tina and her backing vocalist at the opening of the Eurovision Song Contest

Yesterday, on December 7, the application for songs for the national selection of “Eurovision” ended, and this year 130 songs have been submitted for the competition, LTV reports. As a result, the current record number of applications has been broken. The winner of the competition will have the opportunity to participate in the international “Eurovision” song competition, which will take place in May 2022 in Turin, Italy.


“Songs in the style of pop, folk music, electronic music and even heavy rock have been submitted to the competition. Musicians are ready to take part in the national “Eurovision” selection, whose names will surprise every spectator and fan of the competition – an unexpected number of domestic musicians, singing actors, including compatriots living outside Latvia. Among the song applicants are also artists who have once represented Latvia in “Eurovision”, “says the head of LTV Children’s, Youth and Entertainment Agnese Strause-Kubliņa.

Until the end of this year, the entry of songs and performers in the Eurovision national selection television will be determined by the jury, assessing the song’s structure – originality, arrangement, message, compliance with modern market trends, as well as the song and contestant’s , personalities and past achievements in the industry, as well as the potential for future achievements.

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The songs will be available for public evaluation in January, but the competition’s TV shows are expected in February 2022.

The aim of the song contest is to find a piece by a brilliant artist and popular music who could represent Latvia in the international “Eurovision” song contest (semi-finals will take place on May 10 and 12, final – on May 14).

As you know, in 2019, the singer won the Eurovision Song Contest Samanta Tīna and won the 65th International Eurovision Song Contest in the Netherlands, but was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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