Names of the finalists of the Sixth International contest of young singers of popular music "New Wave 2007" have been made public.
General Director of "ARS" holding company, General Director of the "New Wave" contest Alexander Rumyantsev said, "Eight thousand musical performances from 37 countries have been
auditioned. That's significant for us. These are good figures for the six-year old contest. I admit the fact that it was difficult to single out anyone from the participants. They are becoming better and better every year. It was really difficult to make a choice. We think that we have selected the most worthy singers, capable of making the contest interesting, attracting attention of the audience and making a big event out of it. This is valuable! We did not want to exclude some of them, so a decision to let 18 persons get through to the final was made. Performing time was thus cut to 3 minutes. We gave them a chance and I hope we will
not regret it! Formerly the "New Wave" could be watched in other countries by means of satellite communication. This year the contest will be broadcasted in Europe owing to the contestants who come from European countries. Many countries are going to watch their contestants, make TV programs, and broadcast live from Jurmala. I wish all the contestants to perform in the "Dzintari" concert hall successfully. Be sure of yourselves and let good luck
help you to win!"Finalists of the contest:
Belarus - Polina Smolova
Germany - Francisca
Greece -Martakis Kostas
Georgia - Eleonora
Italy - Alessandro
Kazakhstan - band "Rin Go"
Latvia -Erglis
Moldavia - Natalia Gordienko
Poland - Marina
Russia - Nastya Kochetkova; Natasha Vinokurova; Masha Novikova
Rumania - Mihai
USA - Chioma
Ukraine - Vasiliy Lazarovitch, duet "Barcelona"
Czech Republic - Kate, Issa Samer