Amongst the many international stars in Latvia's New Wave festival in Jurmala was Laura Voutilainen, the fresh winner of Iskelmä Finlandia award. You can watch her performance here. She will also release a new greatest hits album in October including one new song, Rakkauden soturi. The video and photos for the album were shot in Malta in May.
The Azerbaijani selection show for the represant was as long as the selection process for the five finalists. Kurt Calleja from Malta and Can Bonomo from Turkey were present with Ell/Nikki to see Sabina Babayeva to emerge as the winner after each and every finalist had done about zillion songs amongst other guests. Now the Azeri TV will shop around a suitable song for her.

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Alsou (RU 2000)
Angelica Agurbash (BY 2005)
Ani Lorak (UA 2008)
Dima Bilan (RU 2006 & 2008)
Lara Fabian (LU 1988)
Laura (FI 2002)
Philipp Kirkorov (RU 1995)
Natalia Podolskaya (RU 2005)
Serebro (RU 2007)
At the festival also played the famous Armenian flutist Jivan Gasparyan. The 82-year-old world-renowned artist played in the ESC in Oslo with Eva Rivas (unfortunately did not officially appear on the featuring as flutist Bora Dugic with Jelena Tomasevic two years earlier). In Jurmala performed with Lara Fabian.