Tonight in Latvia

The Latvian national final was also held last Saturday in Ventspils. There had previously been 2 semi-finals and the 5 best from each went into the final. The public then voted for the winner.

That happened to be a song sung entirely in Italian (a nation not even represented at Eurovision) and is another opera song, so they'll be hoping not to be drawn next to Slovenia then.

They're all good singers, it's all very operatic, it does exactly what it says on the tin.

I'm not really interested, but they'll probably interest me more on the night when I hear them live in the arena...

Bonaparti.lv - Questa Notte (Tonight)



You can find the mp3 here:- http://www.box.net/public/f6k7n0iq07

Latvia:- Semi-final 2

The second Latvian semi-final took place on Saturday night (what a busy evening it was) and five songs out of ten on offer were voted into the national final. Unfortunately the show wasn't webcast and I have no music files of any of the songs so am unable to comment on what they've picked.

Latvia:- Semi-final 1

Latvia began their song search last Saturday in Rīga. There's two semi-finals leading to a national final in a few weeks. The vid below (very bad quality recorded from someone's TV) is of the song which won the first semi.

Lenii - Take Off Your Mask

Kind of ok, but the performance and dancing is shocking.