DJ Dian Solo from Deep Zone Project joins us this week as the former Bulgarian entrants bring us new music. The party continues with another top notch fan favourite chosen by one of you, and we travel to the Baltics for a Latvian triple play. Plus, the latest news stories from the song contest world…
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This Weeks Highlights
Latvia has participated in the contest 22 times since making its debut in 2000, where the group Brainstorm finished third with the song “My Star”. They won in 2002, with Marie N and the song “I Wanna”, defeating Malta by 12 points. Latvia is the second former Soviet country to win the contest. The 2003 contest was held in the Latvian capital Riga. The country achieved its third top 10 result in 2005, when Walters and Kazha finished fifth with “The War Is Not Over”. Latvia did not participate in the final from 2009 to 2014, when they failed to qualify from the semi-finals for six consecutive years, including finishing last on three occasions, in 2009, 2010 and 2013. They qualified for the final for the first time since 2008 at the 2015 contest with Aminata and the song “Love Injected”. Her sixth place in the final is Latvia’s fourth top 10 finish and best result since 2005. Latvia made its 10th appearance in the final in 2016. Latvia has the distinction of having finished last in the Eurovision semi-finals more than any other country. Since its introduction in 2004, Latvia has finished last in five semi-finals, with Intars Busulis (2009), Aisha (2010), PeR (2013), Triana Park (2017) and Samanta Tīna (2021).
Valters and Kaža, known internationally as Walters and Kazha, were a Latvian music duo consisting of Valters Frīdenbergs and Kārlis Būmeisters. They were best known for representing Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song “The War Is Not Over”, written by Mārtiņš Freimanis, finishing in fifth place with 153 points.
In 2009, Valters made a solo effort to represent Latvia with his song “For A Better Tomorrow” but failed to qualify from the semi-final. Two years later, the duo provided the Latvian commentary for the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. Valters was also Latvia’s spokesperson at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.
On 17 October 2018, it was announced that Valters Frīdenbergs had died of a two-year long battle with cancer.
Track List
| 1 | Verona | Koit Toome & Laura | 2017 Estonia |
| 2 | Another Summer Night | Fabrizio Faniello | 2001 Malta |
| 3 | Eat Your Salad | Citi Zeni | 2022 Latvia |
| 4 | Questa Notte | Bonaparti.lv | 2007 Latvia |
| 5 | The War Is Not Over | Walters And Kazha | 2005 Latvia |
| 6 | Goodbye (Shelter) | Sanja Vicic ZAA | 2016 Serbia |
| 7 | DJ, Take Me Away | Deep Zone Project & Balthazar | 2008 Bulgaria |
| 8 | Kakto Predi | Deep Zone Project | 2022 Non Contest |
| 9 | Horoscopes | Sheeba | 1981 Ireland |
| 10 | Voices | Tusse | 2021 Sweden |
| 11 | Forever | Alekseev | 2018 Belarus |
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