F.L.Y.

F.L.Y. was a Latvian band, created with purpose to participate in Eurovision Song Contest. At a party following the national finals of the Eurovision Song Contest 2002, M─ürti┼[]┼í Freimanis came up with an idea for the following yearÔ[][]s contest. In the autumn of 2002, during a golf tournament hosted by Latvijas Telev─½zija, M─ürti┼[]┼í Freimanis, Lauris Reiniks and Yana Kay, started discussing such a co-operative venture and so the trio F.L.Y. was born. Their song "Hello From Mars" was written by M─ürti┼[]┼í Freimanis and Lauris Reiniks and recorded soon afterwards. Each member of F.L.Y. has his/her own musical career. Yana Kay and Lauris Reiniks were solo artists and have each released an album, whilst M─ürti┼[]┼í Freimanis was the lead singer of the band Tumsa, which has three albums to its credit. Yana Kay, Lauris Reiniks and M─ürti┼[]┼í Freimanis have all participated separately in the national finals of the Eurovision Song Contest preliminaries, but their big break Ô[][] the chance to represent Latvia at the Eurovision international finals Ô[][] came in year 2003, when they participated as a group.