Valters & Kaža

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Valters & Kaža or Walters & Kazha were a music duo from Latvia , consisting of Valters Frīdenbergs (born October 26, 1987 in Riga ; † October 17, 2018 ) and Kārlis Būmeisters (born December 13, 1986 in Riga).

The two singers and guitarists had known each other since childhood, because back then they were active in the Latvian children's pop band Dzeguzīte (German: cuckoo ) and then got together as a pop duo.

The two took part in the Latvian preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kiev and were first in the second semifinals there both after televoting and jury evaluations and qualified for the final. Here they were able to reach the superfinal, in which they also achieved first place and thus were allowed to represent Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest with their ballad The War Is Not Over , composed by Mārtiņš Freimanis . There they came in tenth place in the semi-finals and thus just qualified for the final, where they managed to place five.

Four years later tried Valters alone with his song For a Better Tomorrow at the Euro Vision Song Contest 2009 to participate, however, bowed out of the Thirteenth of twenty.

In 2011 and 2016 , they jointly moderated the ESC preliminary decision for LTV1 . At the Eurovision Song Contest 2012, Frīdenbergs acted as a points speaker.

After the ESC

Both Valters and Kārlis were politically active. Valters joined the Christian conservative Latvijas Pirmā partija / Latvijas Ceļš . In 2011 he ran for a seat in the Saeima in the 2011 parliamentary elections in Latvia . Since the party missed the 5% hurdle, he was also denied a seat as a member of parliament. Today Kārlis works as an employee in the EU Parliament . Here he is a member of parliament for MEP Roberts Zīle .

2016 was when Valters cancer diagnosed; an illness from which he died in October 2018 shortly before his 31st birthday.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://4lyrics.eu/countries/latvia/lv-2005/
  2. ↑ http://4lyrics.eu/countries/latvia/lv-2009/semi/
  3. ↑ Умер музыкант Валтерс Фриденбергс

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