Famous People From Latvia EVERITA MUCENIECE JUNPILS SECONDARY

Famous People From Latvia EVERITA MUCENIECE JUNPILS SECONDARY SCHOOL

Raimonds Pauls Ojārs Raimods Pauls -(born on 12 January 1936 in Iļģuciems, Riga Latvia) Latvian composer and piano player who is well known in Latvia, Russia post-Soviet countries and world –wide. He was Minister of culture of Latvia from 1988 to 1993. Pauls has composed music for six musical films and musical theatres, three ballets and over 50 movies and theater performances. CDs with Pauls’s music has been released in several countries outside of Latvia , including Russia, Finland Japan.

Raimonds Pauls Awards ü Order of the Three Stars (Latvia, Grand officer, Commander) ü Order of the Polar star (Sweeden , Knigth 1 st class) ü Order of Honour (Russia) ü Cross of Recognition(Latvia) ü Order of Honour (Armenia) Best - known musical stage works ü Sister Carrie( Māsa Kerija) after Theodore Dreiser’s novel(1978) ü Come with Boys( Nāc pie puikām) (1982) ü Forest Swans(Meža gulbji) ( 1995)

Raimonds Pauls Ballets o Music for theatre performances o A Short Instruction in Love( Īsa pamācība mīlēšanā, Elizabeth – Qeen of England ( Elizabete- Anglijas karaliene), Sherlock Holmes (Šerloks Holmss) etc. Music for movies o Melodies of Cuba ( Kubas melodijas) (1963), Rhythms ( Ritmi, ritmi) (1979), Stained Glass Panels (Vitrāžas) (1979) Servants of the Devil ( Vella kalpi), A present for a Lonely Woman (Dāvana vientuļai sievietei, A limosine in the Colour of a Summer Solstice Night( Limuzīns Jāņu nakts krāsā) , etc. And a lot of other musical works

Brainstorm(Latvian band) Brainnstorm(Latvian: Prāta Vētra) is a Latvian pop/ rock band. Became popular internatinally in 2000, when they took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 with the song ‘’My star’’. Members Renārs Kaupers - vocal, Jānis Jubalts - guitar (1989–present), Māris Mihelsons - keyboard, accordion and other instruments (1989–present), Kaspars Roga - drums, percussion (1989–present), Gundars Mauševics bass guitar (1989 -2004, died in 2004), Ingars Viļums –bass guitar( 2010 present) Festivals "Glastonbury" (UK), "Sziget" (Hungary), "Rock For People" (Russia), "Atlas Weekend" (Ukraine), "Крылья" (Russia), "Нашествие" (Russia), "Red Rocks" (Russia), "Weekend Festival Baltic" (Estonia), Rock For People (Czech Republic), Watergate (Estonia), Culture Collide (USA), Live Sessions Day (Spain), e. t. c

Brainstorm(Latvian band) International Albums International Singles My Star (2000) (BEL #8; SWE #22), Weekends Are Not My Happy Days (2000) (BEL #13), Maybe (2001) (POL #1; GRE #8), Vyhodnye (2004) (UKR #21) Albums in Latvian Among the Suns (2000) , Online (2001), A Day Before Tomorrow (2003) , Four Shores (2006), Years and Seconds (2010), Another Still Life (2012), 7 Steps of Fresh Air (2015), Wonderful day (2018), About the boy who played the tin drum (2018) Vairāk nekā skaļi (More than loud) (1993), Vietu nav (No place) (1994), Veronika (1996), Viss ir tieši tā kā tu vēlies (Everything is exactly as you want) (1997), Starp divām saulēm (Between two suns) (1999), Izlase '89 -'99 (2000), Kaķēns, kurš atteicās no jūrasskolas (The kitten who didn't want to give up; the band's translation. Otherwise, it is 'The kitten that refused to go to the sea school'; a Latvian expression that means 'the kitten that refused to be drowned'. ) (2001), Dienās, kad lidlauks pārāk tāls (The days when the airfield is too far) (2003), Veronika (2004), Četri krasti (Four Shores) (2005), Tur kaut kam ir jābūt (2008), Vēl viena klusā daba (2012), 7 soļi svaiga gaisa (2015), Par to zēnu, kas sit skārda bungas (2018) Albums in Russian Шаг (Step) (2009), Чайки На Крышах (Seagulls on the rooftops) (2012), 7 Steps Of Fresh air (2015)

Brainstorm(Latvian band) In September 1992 Brainstorm released their first single "Jo tu nāc" (Because You Come) and finished as the 9 th in the Latvian popular music contest, the "Michrophones" questionnaire. After this there came out their first album, Vairāk nekā skaļi (More than Loud) 1993. In 1995 one of the band's earlier songs "Lidmašīnas" (Airplanes) became one of the most commercially successful singles in Latvia and the song of the year on Radio Super FM. The band also performed in Germany and the United Kingdom. Latvian radio stations started to play the song "Tavas mājas manā azotē" (Under my wing is your home), which topped Latvian Airplay charts for 9 weeks and became the biggest hit of 1996. The next step was signing a contract with Microphone Records, one of the biggest record companies in Latvia and releasing the next album Viss ir tieši tā kā tu vēlies (Everything's the Way You Want It) in 1997. The album attained gold status.

Brainstorm's first international single was recorded in 1998 in Germany with Volker Hinkel, the producer of Fool's Garden. This single was "Under my wing» . The single was aired in the Baltic States and also other countries. Soon after this, the band was awarded the Grand Prix prize at the Karlshamn music festival in Sweden. In 2004 Brainstorm and a Russian band Bi-2 recorded the song "Skol'zkie Ulitsy" (Slippery Streets), which was included in their album "Inomarki", released on 2 March in 2004 and which reached number 1 on radio charts in Latvia, Ukraine and Russia. They received the MTV Europe Music award for Best Baltic Act in 2006. The band received three awards at the 2012 Annual Latvian Music Recording Awards. In June 2013 Brain. Storm played in the “Glastonbury Festival” and so became the first band from the Baltics to be playing in this world known festival. They have a lot of other awards.

Imants Ziedonis (3 May 1933 – 27 February 2013) was a Latvian poet and writer who first rose to fame during the Soviet era in Latvia. Ziedonis rose to become the Chairman of the Writers' Union Board and Chairman of the Latvian Culture Foundation. Ziedonis considered defecting to the West but chose to remain in Latvia to preserve from what he perceived as Russian destruction the best of Latvian literature in the National Library. Ziedonis was a prominent member of Atmoda, the re-awakening movement in Latvia, he was elected to the Supreme Council of the Republic of Latvia in 1990 and was one of the Supreme Council members who voted for the Declaration on the Restoration of Independence of Latvia.

Imants Ziedonis Awards and honors Following Latvian independence from the Soviet Union, Ziedonis in 1995 was awarded the Order of the Three Stars, Latvia's highest honor for civic merit to the nation. Nominated for The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award – the world's largest prize for children's literature. He died in 2013. Ziedonis was held in highest esteem, indicated by the fact that the prime minister ordered the formation of a special committee for organization of the funeral. Has released first album of the songs with words by Ziedonis simply entitled Viegli (Easily). The second album, entitled Vakars (Evening), was released in 2011, and featured a number of different Latvian musicians. The stamp Imants Ziedonis Will Bloom Eternally was the winner in the stamp design contest organized in social networks by Latvijas Pasts and in 2014. It was realised by a graphic designer Andra Petersone, and the portrait of Ziedonis that is depicted on the stamp is based on the poet's photograph by Leonid Tugalev, which took the first place in an international photo contest in Spain in 1982.

Imants Ziedonis Poetry Folk and Children's Tales Motocikls. R. : Liesma (1965), Es ieeju sevī. R. : Liesma (1968), Epifānijas/ pirmā grāmata. R. : Liesma (1971), Thoughtfully I Read the Smoke: Selected Poems" (parallel texts in Russian and English), Moscow: Progress Publishers (1980), Taureņu uzbrukums. R. : Liesma (1988), etc Krāsainās pasakas. R. : Liesma (1973), Lāču pasaka. R. : Liesma (1976), Pasaka par bizi. R. : Jumava (1997), etc Other Writings Dzejnieka dienasgrāmata. R. : Liesma (1965), Kurzemīte. Otrā grāmata. R. : Liesma (1974), Tutepatās. R. : Karogs (1992), etc

Laima Vaikule is a popular Latvian actress, singer, director, and choreographer, best known in Europe and in the former USSR for such popular hits as "Vernisage" and "Charlie, " among other songs. In 1985, Laima Vaikule made her first hit in the Soviet Union. Since 1986, Vaikule has been enjoying a fruitful collaboration with popular Latvian composer, Raimonds Pauls, and Russian poet Ilya Reznik, who wrote such hits as "Vernisage", "Charlie" and "Skripach na kryshe" ("Fiddler on the roof"). She is among the original organizers of the Jurmala Festival of popular music, alongside with Raimonds Pauls. Vaikule was awarded the Golden Lyra at "Bratislavská Lýra, 87", [2] was guest singer and a host at "Jurmala 92" festival, and also took part at "AU music world" in Monaco, among other festivals and competitions. She was awarded the title National Actress of Latvia and was awarded the Grand Prix (1996) for her special contribution to the music and culture of Latvia.

Laima Vaikule Popular Songs "It's not evening yet" ("Еще не вечер"), "Yellow leaves" ("Листья Желтые"), "Vernisage" ("Вернисаж", duet with Valery Leontiev), "What does the pianist play" ("О чем играет пианист"), "Fiddler on the roof" ("Скрипач на крыше"), "Charlie" ("Чарли") Awards Best-Selling Russian Artist 1993, Order of Friendship (Russia)

Marija Naumova Marija Naumava(born 23 June 1973 in Latvia) is a Latvian singer. Under the stage name Marie N, she sings a broad range of music ranging from pop to musical theatre and jazz, and has recorded several albums, with songs in Latvian, French, English, Russian and Portuguese. In 2002, she won the Eurovision Song Contest for Latvia with her song "I Wanna". Naumova was discovered by famous Latvian musician Raimonds Pauls in 1994 and after a year she performed on TV in searches for talent. She never won, but was noticed by the audience. In 1998, she performed in a concert celebrating the 100 years jubilee of George Gershwin. In March 1998 she performed on stage in concerts with famous Latvian musicians, and one of those concerts was recorded on CD. That gave her career a boost and she began to participate in several music events, television and radio shows, and give interviews for Latvian newspapers In November of 2002 she recorded two new solo albums: one in English, and one in Latvian. She presented the albums to the audience with a tour throughout Latvia.

Marija Naumova In 2004, Marie N successfully combined her singing and acting talents in the lead role of The Sound of Music. Albums 1998: До светлых слёз, 2000: Ieskaties acīs, 2001: Ma Voix, Ma Voie (LV: Gold certification, 2002: On A Journey, 2002: Noslēpumi, 2004: Nesauciet sev līdzi, 2005: Another Dream, 2010: Lullabies, 2016: Uz Ilūziju Tilta

Kārlis Zāle (28 October 1888 — 19 February 1942) was a Latvian sculptor He is best known for his monumental sculptures, including the massive main gates at Brothers' Cemetery and the Freedom Monument in Riga.

Jānis Rozentāls Janis Rozentāls (March 18, 1866 – December 26, 1916) was a famous Latvian painter. Rozentāls made several portraits of the patron of writers and artists A. Dombrovskis, writer Rūdolfs Blaumanis, artist's wife Elli Forsell. In the summer of 1910 he worked at the decorative frieze on the facade of the newly erected building of the Riga Latvian Society. He painted seven symbolic compositions characterizing the main activities of the society. Painting occupied a central place in the creative activity of Janis Rozentāls, yet his performance in graphic art was significant, too. The scope of his activity was very wide – the design of books and magazines, applied graphic art, posters and drawings.

Intars Busulis (born 2 May 1978 in Talsi, Latvia) is a Latvian singer, trombonist and musician in a Musical Union Intars Busulis & Abonementa orķestris. Wider recognition came from participation in a band called "Caffe", in 2001. Also, he has been the winner of several music competitions (including the Grand Prix of the "New Wave" in 2005), as well as, he represented Latvia in Eurovision Song Contest 2009. He was also a contestant in the 3 rd season of Russian reality television singing competition The Voice, based on The Voice series. The singer's career began in Raimonds Tiguls’s project - musical group “Caffe”. The band took part in Eurosong 2002. “Caffe" lasted for four years. Intars Busulis represented Latvia in 2005 in the international contest "New Wave” and won a Grand Prix. He performed three songs - "Kiss", "Ты Ветер", "Изчезли солнечние дни”.

Intars Busulis In "Musical Bank” 2008, which took place in January 2009 in Ventspils, Intars Busulis won with the song “Brīvdiena" (Latvian for “Holiday”). In 2008 LNT (Latvian Independent Television) music show "Fight Club" finals in February 2009 Intars Busulis won with the song “Davai, Davai”. In Music Record Awards concert ceremony "Golden Microphone” (2017) received an award in nomination - Concert-recording, for Intars Busulis, Abonementa orchesta and Liepāja Symphony Orchestra concert (2016) His album Nāmakā pietura (1 March 2017)received Golden Disc Status. In Music Record Awards concert ceremony "Golden Microphone” (2018) album "Nākamā pietura" won in two nominations - Best Pop album and Album of the year. Albums Shades of Kiss (2005) , Kino (2008) , AKTs (2010) - publisher , CitāC (2013) , Гравитация (2015) , Nākamā Pietura (2017)

Zemgus Girgensons (born 5 January 1994) is a Latvian professional ice hockey centre currently playing for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected 14 th overall in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft by the Buffalo Sabres. With this selection, Girgensons became the highest-drafted Latvian in NHL. In the previous year, Girgensons was selected in the second round, 28 th overall, in the 2011 Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) Junior Draft by CSKA Moscow. Girgensons was the runaway leader in fan voting for the 2015 All-Star Game, buoyed in large part by votes from his native Latvia. Girgensons participated at the 2012 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships as a member of the Latvian junior team and at the 2010 IIHF World U 18 Championships. He made his senior national team debut in 2013 World Championships against the United States and scored his first international goal against Slovakia.

Zemgus Girgemsons On 7 January 2014, it was announced that Latvia Head Coach Ted Nolan had included Girgensons on his national team roster for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Girgensons scored his first Olympic goal in Latvia's third tournament game, coming versus Sweden off of a power play goal against Henrik Lundqvist. Awards and honours All-Star Game 2011 , Clark Cup 2011, First All-Star Team 2012(USHL) All-Star Game Rising Star of the Year Award 2015(NHL) 2013(Latvia)

Kristaps Porziņģis (born 2 August 1995) is a Latvian professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is 7 ft 3 in (2. 21 m) tall, and plays both the power forward and center positions. Following multiple years with the junior teams of Sevilla and representing them in Nike International Junior Tournaments, he was promoted to the senior squad. There, Porziņģis quickly rose as the figurehead of the team, becoming the youngest ever recipient of the Euro. Cup Basketball Rising Star award, while also attracting interest from various NBA franchises, ultimately being selected by the Knicks with the fourth overall pick of the 2015 NBA draft. Porziņģis competed with the Latvia youth national team at the 2013 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship.

Kristaps Porziņģis played with the Latvian youth team and was selected in the 2013 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship All-Tournament Team. In 2015, Porziņģis was named the Latvian Rising Star of the Year In 2017, Porziņģis played for Latvia at Euro. Basket 2017, where he averaged 23. 6 points and 5. 9 rebounds assists per game. Due to his height and mobility, Porziņģis is able to shoot over any defender, with his sheer size and high volume creating a unique advantage shared by no other player in the league. Career highlights and awards NBA All-Star (2018), NBA All-Rookie First Team (2016), Euro. Cup Rising Star (2015), 2× ACB All-Young Players Team (2014, 2015)

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