eurovision 2000
Brainstorm
Brainstorm represented Latvia at Eurovision 2000 in Stockholm with “My Star”, finishing 3rd of 24.
- what
- Latvian band
- formed
- 1989, Latvia
- contest
- 2000
- best result
- 3rd, 2000
- music
- rock, alternative rock, Britpop, indie rock
- active
- since 1989
- record labels
- Microphone Records, EMI
- members
- Renārs Kaupers, Ingars Viļums, Gundars Mauševics past and present
- sang for
- Latvia
Biography
Brainstorm, known at home as Prāta Vētra, is a Latvian pop-rock band that found listeners abroad in 2000. “My Star” was the first song Latvia sent to the contest, and it finished third in Stockholm.
Written by ESC Predictions, 8 October 2026. Sources: Wikipedia, “Brainstorm (Latvian band)”.
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At Eurovision
One song, and what became of it.
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2000 Stockholm
“My Star”
3rd of 24 Finished 3rd of 24, with 136 points.
- Sung in
- English
- Written by
- Renārs Kaupers
- Running order
- 21st of 24
- Won that year
- Denmark: Olsen Brothers, “Fly on the Wings of Love”
The story of Eurovision 2000: Two brothers nobody tipped, a disowned entry and a broadcast cut short
Away from Eurovision
Awards
- MTV Europe Music Award for Best Baltic Act 2006
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