Miks Galvanovskis won the Supernova Wildcard vote, meaning he will compete in the main Supernova competition in February. He will join the 16 artists chosen from the submissions pool.
The online wildcard vote featured 10 artists who were not ranked in the first 16 places, as assessed by an expert jury. The full list of wildcard participants is below:
- Antra Stafecka and Atis Ieviņš – “Call the Lights”
- Dārta Stepanova – “Brīnumzeme” (Wonderland)
- Edvards Strazdiņš – “Open Road”
- Katrīna Dimanta – “My Voice”
- Marta Ritova – “Let Me Go”
- Mārtiņš Strods – “One More Time”
- Rihards Bērziņš – “1+1”
- Tētis – “Labākie vārdi” (The best words)
- Toms Kalderauskis – “Naked smile”
This is Miks second appearance in the Latvian national selection, having competed in 2017. He placed 8th in the second heat. This time around, he will compete with the song ‘I’m Just a Sinner’.
Here is the full list of participants:
- Aminata – “I’m Letting You Go”
- Beatrise Heislere – “On the way home”
- Bermudu Divstūris – “Bad”
- BUJĀNS – “He, She, You & Me”
- Citi Zēni – “Eat Your Salad”
- Elīna Gluzunova – “Es pabiju tur” (I was there)
- Inspo – “A Happy Place”
- KATŌ – “Promises”
- Linda Rušeniece – “Pay My Own Bills”
- Markus Riva – “If You’re Gonna Love Me”
- Mēs Jūs Mīlam – “Rich Itch”
- Miks Dukurs – “First Love”
- Miks Galvanovskis – “I’m Just A Sinner”
- Patriks Peterson – “Can’t Get You Outta My Head”
- RAUM – “Plans”
- the COCO’NUTS – “In and out of the dark”
- Zelma – “How”
Returning Participants
Most notably, the line-up includes Aminata. She represented Latvia in 2015 with the song Love Injected, finishing 6th in the final. The line-up also features Bermudu Divstūris who represented Latvia in 2011 as part of Musiqq.
BUJĀNS consists of 2009 representative Intars Busulis, and Reinis Sējāns who was a part of the 2006 representatives, Cosmos. Ralfs Eilands, who is competing as part of Mēs Jūs Mīlam was also a part of PeR, who represented Latvia in 2013.