Arnis Mednis | |
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 Arnis Mednis in 2008 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | 18 October 1961 |
| Origin | Latvia |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician singer |
| Years active | 1986- |
Arnis Mednis (born 18 October 1961) [1] is a Latvian singer. He represented Latvia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 in Denmark with the song, "Too Much", [2] and finished in 18th place out of the 23 competing nations, with 16 points.
Riga State Gymnasium No.1, the oldest school in the Baltic states, offers secondary education in Riga, the capital of Latvia.
Skonto FC was a Latvian football club, founded in 1991. The club played at the Skonto Stadium in Riga. Skonto won the Virsliga in the first 14 seasons of the league's resumption, and often provided the core of the Latvia national football team. With those 14 national championships in a row, they set a European record, men and women's football combined, until the women of Faroese club KÍ Klaksvík won their 14th championship in a row in 2013.
Latvia has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 21 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".
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Carousel is a Latvian band that represented their country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv. The band was originally a duo consisting of founding members Sabīne Žuga and Mārcis Vasiļevskis. Staņislavs Judins and Mareks Logins (drums) joined Carousel in 2019.
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