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Are you a fan of language? Did you enjoy the days of no free-language rule, and wish those days would come back? Or you happy that singers have a choice, and can sing in Faroese, Nahuatl, or even !xo if they wanted to?
Of course, the free language was reintroduced in 1999, and many countries chose English. Including Latvia. But in 2004, they sang completely in Latvian for the first time. That song was partly sung by today’s birthday boy Ivo Fomins. He and his pal Tomass Kleins combined their surnames for the band they fronted, and having won Latvia’s Eirodziesma went to İstanbul, knowing they had to beat 12 other songs to make the Grand Final. As you’ll know, they didn’t, but they were in the company of many other songs who avoided using English. And it would be 19 years before we heard any Latvian again.
Ivo is 57 today.
Daudz laimes dzimšanas dienā, Ivo!