Arts in the Park presents Desiree Jai
Submitted Photo - - Singer Desiree Jai appears in concert as part of her winning last summer’s Arts in the Park Idol competition, held as part of the Minot Area Council of the Arts annual summer concert series.
For many of the competitors in last year’s Arts in the Parks Idol Competition, winning the prize of a performance slot in the coming year’s Arts in the Parks lineup might seem intimidating. But Desiree Jai has been up to the challenge of preparing a full evening of solo entertainment for many years. Jai opened for Wynonna Judd in 2003 at We Fest after beating out 88 other auditioners. Also, she said, “I’ve been performing an act impersonating Shania Twain called ‘Shania Too’ at the State Fair for about five years now,” she said. “I’ve been singing in public beginning about age 3.” Those shows were in a nursing home in Watford City, and she has been all over the country doing mostly country rock. “Musicwise it’s been a little bit of everything – well, no opera,” she said. When she was a teenager, Jai participated in the pageant scene, and was named Miss Oil Country in Tioga.
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