The Jurmala Young Pop Singer Competition ( lv, Jauno dziedātāju konkurss „Jūrmala”, russian: конкурс молодых исполнителей эстрадной песни "Юрмала"), has been held almost annually during 1986-1993 in the resort city of Jūrmala,

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. Each year the chairman of the jury was the initiator of the festival, Raimonds Pauls. Another founder and host (until 1992) was Yuri Nikolaev. Since 1992: Jurmala Television Pop Music Festival ( lv, Starptautiskais popmūzikas festivāls)Kino Muzejs

1986

*Grand Prix: Rodrigo Fomins (Igo); songs: "Путь к свету", "Грибной дождь" and "Kā senā dziesmā" *1st prize: Narine Arutyunyan *2nd prize: Valentina Legkostupova; songs, "Берег счастья" and "Пускай метель" *3rd prize: Svetlana Medyanik & Ais Buluktaeva

1987

* Grand Prix: (was not awarded) * 1st prize:

Kare Kauks Kare-Ülli Kauks (Kare-Ülli Orav by marriage; born 2 June 1961 in Kehra) is an Estonian singer and music teacher. Career Kare Kauks has been vocal-coached by Heidy Tamme at the pop department of Tallinn Music School. As a promising jazz voc ...

* 2nd prize: Olga Rajecka & Uģis Roze * 3rd prize: Larisa Konoshchuk & Valery Karimov * Spectators' Prize: Alla Perfilova; jazz- rock song by Natalya Maslova arranged by Leonid Yaroshevsky

1988

*Grand Prix:

Aleksandr Malinin Aleksandr Nikolaevich Malinin (russian: Александр Николаевич Малинин, born Vyguzov, russian: Выгузов; 16 November 1958) is a Russian singer who was named a People's Artist of Russia in 1997. Career Malinin was bo ...

; songs: "Коррида", "Напрасные слова", "Осторожно, двери закрываются" *1st prize: Erich Krieger *2nd prize: The competition this year had a political resonance when the Latvian pop-rock singer

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performed the patriotic song "Tautas laiks" ("People's Time") written by Imants Ziedonis. *3rd prize: Kastytis Kerbedis & Aziza Mukhamedova

1989

*Grand Prix:

Soso Pavliashvili Ioseb Raminovich "Soso" Pavliashvili (russian: Иосиф Раминович "Сосо" Павлиашвили, ka, იოსებ რამინის ძე "სოსო" პავლიაშვილი; born 29 June 1964 in Tbilisi) is a ...

*1st prize: Angelina Petrosova *2nd prize: Eugene Kulikov *3rd prize: Ivo Fomins *Spectators' Award: Ivo Fomins

1992

The competition was held July 21–25 in the Tennis Center "Lielupe". The organizers were Raimonds Pauls, Igor Nikolayev and Vadim Makarenko. This year it was announced as an International Television Festival and rules were changed: the number of contestants was limited to 15, the age was limited to 25, and the languages were limited to English and Latvian. Russian was excluded for political reasons due to the escalated conflict with Russia. For the latter reason Nikolayev was rejected as a host. Jurmala-92 Competition Changed the Rules
(Конкурс "Юрмала-92" сменил правила), ''Vlast Magazine'', no 122, January 6, 1992 *Grand Prix:

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/ref> *Third prize: Maxim Fadeev A 105' documentary ''Jurmala-92'' was released.

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