Marija Naumova

Naumova was discovered by famous Latvian musician Raimonds Pauls in 1994 and after a year she performed on TV in searches for talent.

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 2001, she again participated in the Latvian preselection, singing "Hey Boy Follow Me", which was voted public favourite but was not chosen by the expert jury.

Naumova had to wait another year before she was finally chosen to represent Latvia with "I Wanna", for which she also wrote the music and co-wrote the lyrics.

There are cover versions of several world-famous songs in the album – for example, two compositions which were originally written in French, but became very popular in English language.