Today the Latvian broadcaster, LTV, announced its 15 acts that will compete in Latvia’s national final, called “Supernova 2023”.
Supernova 2023
It will be the eight time that the Latvian national final, called “Supernova 2023”, will be held to determine who is going to represent Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest.
The format
The format of Supernova 2023 will consist of 1 Semi-final and 1 Grand Final. In both parts a mix of jury and public votes will determine who progresses and eventually wins the ticket to go to Liverpool (United Kingdom).
- Semi-final: February 4th 2023
- Grand Final: February 11th 2023
Two hosts
The contest will be presented by two hosts, which are: Ketija Šēnberga and Lauris Reiniks. Reiniks represented Latvia with the group F.L.Y. in the Eurovision Song Contest of 2003 when Latvia itself was the host country, with the song “Hello From Mars”.
15 competing acts
Below you can find a list of the 15 acts that will compete in the Latvian national final. There were 121 song submissions; these were listened to by a jury that was selected by the national broadcaster of Latvia, LTV. In this jury there were Latvian music connoisseurs, but also national professionals of the events and television industry, but also international experts.
The acts and their songs
- Avēnija, “You Said”
- Adriana Miglāne, “Like I Wanna”
- Alise Haijima, “Tricky”
- Artūrs Hatti, “Love Vibes”
- Avéi, “Let Me Go”
- Inspo, “Sway”
- Justs, “Stranger”
- Katrine Miller, “Beaten Down”
- Luīze, “You To Hold Me”
- Markus Riva, “Forever”
- Patrisha, “Hush”
- Raum, “Fake Love”
- Saule, “Finally Happy”
- Sudden Lights, “Aijā”
- Toms Kalderauskis, “When It All Falls”
You can listen to all entries in the video below.
Familiar name
Singer Justs represented Latvia before in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm (Sweden) with the song “Heartbeat”. He ended in 8th place in Semi-final 2, and in the Grand Final in 15th position (of 26).
Eurovision 2022
In the Eurovision Song Contest of 2022 the band Citi Zēni took part for Latvia with the song “Eat Your Salad”. In Semi-final 1 these guys ended in 14th position, thus not making it into the Grand Final.
ESCplus Live
Watch both the Latvian Semi-final as well as the Grand Final of Supernova 2023 on our dedicated platform, called “ESCplus Live”, the best way to watch all national finals, and more. Just click the link: https://live.esc-plus.com/.