International Competition Of Young Singers of Popular Music the " New Wave" has become an important event in international music arena.Live concerts of the "New Wave" on central channels attracts millions of spectators , attention of the most famous journalists and media as well as fans, who become addicted to the event and support the competitors with all their hearts. Two legendary composers Igor Krutoy and Raimonds Pauls discussed the idea of organizing a completely new competition unlike to other competitions which took place on the territory of Russia and the countries of CIS. Mr Pauls Raimonds Pauls supported the opinion of Mr Krutoy about the situation in modern popular music...
Raimond Pauls - the most popular Latvian composer, co-chairman of the jury
"New Wave" - the youngsters need the contest!
The sixth International competition of young singers of popular music "New Wave 2007" is to begin in Jurmala on July,25. How quick time passes, and so many people have become popular all over the world. That is why the youngsters need the contest! Very few competitions of young singers are left in the world! How can young people show their worth? Where can they do it? I can say one thing both to young performers and to organizers: brilliant talents should be searched for! We should look for very talented people. We need to set high standards. We cannot let commonplace people go on stage! We cannon let people see uniformity on stage. Now we are waiting for such talents as Alla Pugacheva and Valeriy Leontiev were years ago. They did explode the stage once! We need such unique new talented people now. We are really short of bright and strong characters on stage. They need to be looked for! It is very nice that regional selection tours are organized. Even Kamchatka should not be left out!
I wish only victory to the finalists of the "New Wave 2007"!