Linas Adomaitis was born on March 10, 1976 to a family of a professional violinist. He attended music school from early age and now holds master’s degree from Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. Linas started his music career in 1995 with quartet called L+. The band played in R&B style. They released four albums before adjourning in 2000. Linas then started solo career. Simona Jakubėnaitė (born in 1984) participated in about 15 large international music festivals before taking part in Fizz Superstar contest in 2002. The show was very similar to the American Idol and took place in the three Baltic states. Simona did not win the contest, but met Linas and started working together. For a while she was Linas’ backing singer. |Eurovision Song Contest 2004 Semi-Final - Istanbul|Entry for Latvia Performer: Linas ir Simona|Song title: What’s Happened To Your Love|Song writer(s): Camden MS|Song composer(s): Michalis Antonio, Linas Adomaitis Sang in Position: 12|Final Position: 16|Total Points: 26 In 2003, it was decided that a Semi-Final would be held in 2004 with only the so-called ‘Big Four’ (Germany, UK, France and Spain) plus the ten most successful countries from the 2003 ranking having a pre-set spot in the Final. All the other countries had to go through a Semi-Final, which was held on the Wednesday prior to the Eurovision Song Contest Final night on Saturday. 22 countries decided to take part in the 2004 Semi-Final which would only allow the top 10 to progress to the Final. All countries would have to use telephone and SMS voting to decide about the ten happy winners which would only be revealed by the opening of envelopes. The total result of the Semi-Final would only be made public after the big Final, to keep the tension high. Several new countries entered the 2004 Semi-Final: Andorra, Albania and Belarus were there for the first time ever and Serbia & Montenegro participated for the first time as an independent country even though Serbian songs had already been taking part under the flag of Yugoslavia. Monaco decided to return to the contest after a modest break of 25 years. A new logo - hearts including the flag of all participating countries - was introduced in Istanbul and replaced all the exsisting logos which were used before. Furthermore, the official website of the Eurovision Song Contest was produced centralized by the EBU for the first time. | |
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