With the biggest hits and premieres of the brightest musicians in Latvia, the solemn ceremony of the Music Record of the Year Award “Golden Microphone” and the celebration of the best records of the past year will take place tomorrow, informs the representative of the Music Record of the Year Award.
Maestro Raimonds Pauls will perform a performance at the ceremony filming studio, the new Media Center of the Riga Art and Media Technical School, performing a song from the nominated album “Seriously for a Joke” together with Guntis Skrastiņš.
There will be a strong hit “Happiness This” ladies’ trio performed by Aija Andrejeva, Kristīne Pāže and Agnese Rakovska, as well as diva Linda Leen will perform her single “Blue Monday” released two months ago.
Latvian music stars such as Instruments and Ozols will perform retrospectives of their creative activity, who are celebrating the twentieth anniversary of their creative activity this year and will look back on the accomplishment in the form of a performance together with rapper Roland. The combination of garage rock and hip hop in the song “Urbis” will be offered by the band Nova Koma with rappers Edavārds and Idus Abra. For the first time, a concert version of Samantha Tina’s song “The Moon is Rising” will be performed, which this year will represent Latvia in the International Eurovision Song Contest.
Debutante Loreta Reide, the group Jānis Ruņģs Presence, as well as Chris Noah will also take the stage. There will be premieres of Ivo Fomina’s song “You are me”, as well as Aija Andrejeva’s and Zebrene’s joint work “Shaman”.
The great masters of ceremonies Mārtiņš Daugulis and Kaspars Breidaks will take care of the atmosphere, who will lead the ceremony together for the third year in a row.
This year, Aija Andrejeva has received the most nominations, with the Golden Microphone award competing in the Pop Music Album and Song category, as well as the collaboration “Happiness This” competing for the award in three categories – Song, Radio hits and Elektrum Song of the Year. Triana Park, Don and Carnival Youth apply for the Golden Microphone statuette in three categories, while many musicians have received two nominations, including Kārlis Kazāks, Ozols, Ūga, Kārlis Auzāns, Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, Igo, Sudden Lights, Tautumeitas and others.
It has already been reported that the children’s vocal studio “Knīpas un Knauķi” will receive the award for Lifetime Contribution to the Development of Latvian Music. As usual, at the end of the event, the winner in the Album of the Year category will also be awarded – there are no previously known nominees, because any album that wins in its genre category can also become the Album of the Year in the jury’s evaluation.
With the support of LaIPA, Elektrum, Vivus.lv and the Ministry of Culture, anyone interested will be able to enjoy the award ceremony live on March 16 at 21.10 on TV3 and TV3Play.
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