New Wave (competition)

New Wave
Genre Pop, Europop, Jazz
Dates Six days (three contest days) in July
Location(s) Russia Sochi, Russia[1]
Years active 2002 - present
Founded by Igor Krutoy and Raimonds Pauls
Website
Official Website

New Wave (Russian: Новая волна, Novaya volna, Latvian: Jaunais Vilnis) is an international contest for new stars, which usually lasts for six days: 3 contest days, 2 special event days and, at the end, the day where the contest's results are announced followed by an ending concert.

New Wave is a contest for young performers of popular music which was founded by a Russian composer Igor Krutoy and by Latvian pianist and composer Raimonds Pauls in 2002 and later enhanced by a very famous Russian superstar Alla Pugacheva. New Wave used to be held in the Latvian coastal city of Jūrmala (Dzintari), but due to difficult Latvian-Russian relations, the contest was moved to Sochi city, the Russian Federation in time for the 2015 contest. Although meant to popularize new stars from all over Europe, the countries of the former USSR and USA, many present and former superstars play an important, if not the most important, role in it

Winners

Year Country Contester
2015  Croatia Damir Kedžo
2014  Georgia Nutsa Buzaladze
2013  Cuba Roberto Kel Torres
2012  Russia Niloo
2011  United States Jayden Felder
2010  Armenia Sona Shahgeldyan
2009  Indonesia
 Ukraine		 Sandhy Sondoro
Jamala[2]
2008  Georgia Duo Georgia
2007 Moldova Moldova Natalia Gordienko
2006  United States Angelina La Rose
2005  Latvia Intars Busulis
2004  Latvia Cosmos
2003  Russia Nastya Stotckaya
2002  Russia Smash!!!

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Russian Pop Festival Ditches Latvia". The Moscow Times. January 12, 2014. Retrieved January 13, 2014.
  2. ↑ http://www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/23317/

External links

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