![]() ![]() This is what the right-wing, anti-migrants National Alliance, the government’s chief driver behind the push to increase the birth-rates, is hoping for when it demands higher financial support for families with three children or more.Įxperts predict small growth, but don’t believe the average can climb above the needed line. For a normal change of generations to take place, this average must increase above 2. However, the current average of 1.74 children per woman is comparatively high, the largest indicator since 1992 and among the top in EU. One in four Latvians will be 65 years of age or older.Īs the number of women in childbearing age diminishes, families with multiple children could slow down the trend. Only 14,000 babies will be born in Latvia in 2030.Īccording to the Eurostat scenario the population in Latvia will fall to 1.6 million from the current 1.9 million. The fall in the number of newborns will be even larger: about one third. Girls who were born at that time are now 27 years old, an average age when women in Latvia decide to have their first child.Įurostat, the EU statistical bureau, calculates that the number of women in childbearing age (15-49 years old) will decrease by 23 percent by 2030 compared to now. ![]() These are the reasons why having four children was not a hard choice for Dūzis. Life in the small town, where everything is within reach. Agnese is lawyer in the agricultural company, her husband Kaspars works on a large farm. Apart from Amēlija and Klāvs, who goes to the second grade, there is also a 13-year-old Kristaps and an 18-year-old Viesturs. When Klāvs asks to come along to music school for piano practice, I ran out out of the office for half hour,” says Agnese. They said it from the very beginning: it doesn’t matter where I am, the most important thing is that the job gets done. She will repeat the routine later in the evening. After that she put Amēlija for a nap and sat down to work for three hours in front of the computer at the kitchen table. The day when Re:Baltica visited them in Dobele, a tiny town of about 10 000 people, located 75 kilometers from the capital Riga, was different because Agnese, the mother, was taking her youngest to the doctor. The parents of a two-year-old Amēlija also still employ a nanny. Knowing that the kindergarten’s first year means that the child spends “three days there and a week at home”, often the family relies on grandparents for help. The Dūzis family’s youngest has just started kindergarten and got sick once again. Their extensive catalog has nearly broken the internet, having raked in billions of streams and counting.Ģ023 sees Tash release the first music from a new era of Tash Sultana.Death rate is still bigger than the number of newborns, and there is simply not enough women to have them. But for the first time, Terra Firma saw Tash bring in a couple of close friends and collaborations to co-write – including Matt Corby, Dann Hume, Jerome Farah, and Josh Cashman. Like everything before it, the entirety of the record was carved by Tash – every instrument that was played, every bit of musical arrangement, every bit of production. In 2019 alone, Tash sold more than 500,000 concert tickets globally, and over the years they’ve notched up major international appearances at festivals like Coachella, Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Austin City Limits, and Montreal Jazz Festival.Īcclaimed second record Terra Firma landed in 2021, and garnered widespread praise for Tash’s raw and reflective songwriting and ambitious musical arrangements. Their debut album Flow State landed in 2018 and quickly became Gold certified, and spawned Platinum and Gold records with singles ‘Mystik’ and ‘Murder to the Mind’. ![]() Since then, it’s been nothing but a meteoric rise. Their now-famous busking sessions on Melbourne’s Bourke Street catapulted them into the eyes and ears of music fans everywhere, and a viral video of their early song ‘Jungle’ brought them international attention. Tash creates, composes, writes, engineers and produces everything that is heard live, and on record. The gender-fluid multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer-songwriter, engineer and entrepreneur has carved out every step in their musical journey over the last 15 years, which has taken them from performing open night mics all over the country, busking the streets of Melbourne to releasing platinum records, accumulating billions of streams, nominations across the globe, to winning awards and selling hundreds of thousands of concert tickets worldwide. Since they broke through into the Australian music scene more than a decade ago, Tash Sultana has been nothing less than a musical force. ![]()
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