Lauris Reiniks

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Lauris Reiniks at the Latvian TV Choir Competition Koru kari (2008)

Lauris Reiniks (born July 11, 1979 in Dobele ) is a Latvian singer , composer , actor and showmaster .

Life and music

Lauris Reiniks was born as the son of the singer Artūrs Reiniks  and the music teacher Dace Reinika in Dobele, a town in southwest Latvia . He has a younger sister. He grew up in Tērvete . As a teenager he founded his first band "AURI" with the support of his father, where he performed as a soloist and gained his first stage experience. Reiniks graduated from the University of Music in Jelgava and studied communication sciences at the University of Latvia , but did not finish this course. He trained his acting skills in Los Angeles .

The Reiniks family had their own radio show called Spiets ("The Swarm") and toured Latvia. From 1998 to 2001 Lauris Reiniks hosted the music TV show Nošu Spēles on Latvian television . Through this show he met the composer Raimonds Pauls , from whom he was invited to several music projects. The collaboration lasted about a year. He later wrote songs himself and began his career as a solo singer. The agency "Aktiv Music" offered him a contract with the record company Platforma Records , which started his success.

Together with Mārtiņš Freimanis and Yana Kay, he founded the band FLY in 2003 and competed in the Eurovision Song Contest . Between 2003 and 2016 he released six solo albums in Latvia alone. Lauris Reiniks has won more than 24 national awards.

Internet

Because of his millions of views on the YouTube video platform , he is known as the "unofficial king of YouTube of Latvia".

Eurovision Song Contest / Eirodziesma

  • 2001: Lauris Reiniks & Linda Leen with I Wish I Knew, 2nd place in the national preliminary round Eirodziesma
  • 2002: Lauris Reiniks with My Memory Tape, 5th place in the national preliminary round
  • 2003: Lauris Reiniks, Mārtiņš Freimanis and Yana Kay with Hello from Mars, 1st place in the national preliminary round, 24th place in the Eurovision Song Contest
  • 2009: Kristīna Zaharova with I wish I could pretend (composed by Lauris Reiniks, text by Lauris Reiniks and Gordon Pogoda), 2nd place in the Irish preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest
  • 2010: Lauris Reiniks with Your Morning Lullaby, 4th place in the national preliminary round
  • 2011: Lauris Reiniks with Banjo Laura, 2nd place in the national preliminary round

Discography

Albums

  • Planet 42  (2002)
  • Lidot savādāk  (2003) [in German about "flying differently"]
  • Tik balti  (2003) ["So white"]
  • Never Look Back  (together with FLY ) (2003) [" Never look back"]
  • Debesskrāpju spīts  (2005) ["Stubborn Skyscrapers"]
  • Nakts veikalā  (2007) ["Night Shop"]
  • Es skrienu  (2010) (This title was also published in German as a single, under the name Ich renne. )
  • Aš bėgu  (2011)
  • Ma jooksen  (2011)
  • Lauris Reiniks Ziemassvētkos  (2012) ["Christmas with Lauris Reiniks"]
  • Lauris Reiniks - Labāko dziesmu izlase (2017) ["A selection of the best songs by Lauris Reiniks"]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography . In: Lauris Reiniks . June 17, 2014 ( laurisreiniks.com [accessed October 10, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Reiniks, Lauris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian singer, composer, actor and show master
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Dobele , Latvian SSR