page_title: Aminata Savadogo
section_title: 2015–2016: Eurovision Song Contest 2015 and Inner Voice
hierarchical_section_title: Aminata Savadogo / Life and career / 2015–2016: Eurovision Song Contest 2015 and Inner Voice
caption_attribution_description: English: Eurovision Song Contest Vienna 2015: Aminata Deutsch: Eurovision Song Contest Vienna 2015: Aminata
context_page_description: Aminata Savadogo, occasionally known as simply Aminata, is a Latvian singer, songwriter, record producer, and model.
  She represented Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song "Love Injected". She released her debut studio album, Inner Voice, in April 2015.
context_section_description: In 2015, Savadogo returned to the Latvian Eurovision national selection and was announced as a competitor in Supernova 2015 with the song "Love Injected". She qualified through the televote in both the second heat and the semi-final. In the final held on 22 February 2015, she was announced as the winner and represented Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015. Savadogo released her début studio album Inner Voice on 8 April 2015.
  Savadogo performed tenth in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, after Israel and before Azerbaijan. She qualified to the final after placing second with 155 points, becoming Latvia's first qualification in seven years. In the final, she performed nineteenth, after Poland and before Romania. She finished in sixth place out of twenty-seven, placing 2nd in the rankings of the national juries, and earning a total of 186 points and three sets of the maximum twelve points a country can award. With her placing,  she earned Latvia their best placing since 2005 and their fourth best placing ever. She wrote the song "Heartbeat", performed by Justs who represented Latvia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2016.
caption: Aminata performing "Love Injected" at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
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