After
an exciting show in Ventspils tonight, Latvia found its entry for the
2011 Eurovision Song Contest: it will be Musiqq with their song Angel In Disguise
who will represent the nation in Düsseldorf, Germany! Latvia was drawn
into the second half of the second Semi-Final which will take place on
the 12th of May. Musiqq fought off 10 rival songs in the final tonight
and were overjoyed when the results were announced.
The winner was chosen in two rounds of voting - the first to select
the top 3 and the second to select the winner. The voting was a
mixture of televoting (50%) and a specially formed jury (50%).
The participants
The running order of the Latvian final looked like this:
Evija Sloka - Don't Stop The Dance
Elīna Krastiņa - Look Back At Me Again
Ivo Grīsniņš-Grīslis - Cinderella
The Secretz - Summer Night
Pieneņu Vīns - You Are
Jānis Stībelis - Let It Be Me
Oksana Ļepska - Live On!
Musiqq - Angel In Disguise
Blitze - Hop
D-family - Daylight
Lauris Reiniks - Banjo Laura
The three songs reaching the so-called "superfinal" were the following:
Lauris Reiniks - Banjo Laura
Pieneņu Vīns - You Are
Musiqq - Angel In Disguise
Blitze's song was composed by Mārtiņš Freimanis - member of the group
F.L.Y which participated for Latvia in the 2003 Eurovision Song
Contest - who died on the 27th of January, being only 33 years old.
Lauris Reiniks was another member of F.L.Y who represented the country on home soil in 2003.
