Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest
Latvia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 24 times since making its debut at the contest in 2000, where the group Brainstorm finished third with the song "My Star". Latvia won the contest 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".
Karlis Streips is the first Latvian Eurovision commentator in history. He provided Eurovision Song Contest commentary until 2011
Valters Frīdenbergs was lead commentator from 2011 until his illness and death in 2018
Toms Grēviņš has been lead Latvian commentator since 2018
Bonaparti.lv performing "Questa notte" in Helsinki (2007)
Eurovision Song Contest 2000
The Eurovision Song Contest 2000 was the 45th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 13 May 2000 at the Globe Arena in Stockholm, Sweden. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) and presented by Kattis Ahlström and Anders Lundin, the contest was held in Sweden following the country's victory at the 1999 contest with the song "Take Me to Your Heaven" by Charlotte Nilsson. With an audience of 13,000 people present, the 2000 contest was the largest yet seen in its history.
Globe Arena, Stockholm – host venue of the 2000 contest.
The Olsen Brothers (pictured in 2008) were the second Danish act to win the contest, thirty-seven years after the country's previous win.
Image: Kattis Ahlström 01
Image: Anders Lundin August 2013 (cropped)
