No More Holding Back Onstage: Latvia gets loud
Latvia’s history in the Eurovision Song Contest has been a rather uneventful one. As of the current year of 2019, Latvia currently holds only one victory in the ESC, and that’s in 2002, over a decade ago. Before 2015, the country’s presence in the contest had been viewed as bleak, with no chance of getting noticed. But with the performances in the two years of 2015 and 2016, Latvia suddenly took giant leaps forward, showcasing songs with intensity that caught almost everyone’s attention. While the Baltic country did not win in either of these years, Latvia’s presence in the competition no longer felt hopeless. The songs submitted showed proof that the country still had a voice to be heard, and that diversity is present within Latvia. In 2015, the song submitted was “Love Injected” by Aminata Savadogo, or simply Aminata. She not only performed the song live at the finals that year, but the song was written...