 Greg Jenson/The Clarion-Ledger Taryn Foshee, Miss Byram Tri-County, is crowned Miss Mississippi 2006 by Miss Mississippi 2005 Kristian Dambrino at the pageant at the Vicksburg Convention Center. Foshee, whose piano-playing won the talent competition, advances to the Miss America Pageant in January. |
During a TV commercial break before the start of the talent competition, Miss Byram Tri-County Taryn Leigh Foshee of Clinton took a seat at the Baldwin piano that had been rolled to center stage of the Miss Mississippi Pageant here Saturday night at the Vicksburg Convention Center. She confidently smiled at those in the audience, as if maybe she knew something they didn't.
Foshee tore through the rollicking Spanish number El Cumbanchero with the speed and efficiency of a Jerry Lee Lewis, not a note turning sour. Fans roared their approval as she stood and bowed. At that moment, Foshee admitted later, she had a feeling she might win.
And she did.
Foshee, a 5-foot-4, blue-eyed brunette who graduated from Hillcrest Christian School in 2003 and attends Mississippi State University, was crowned Miss Mississippi, completing her dream after finishing second runner-up the past two years. She advances to the Miss America Pageant in January.
"I have to give my parents a lot of credit for keeping me positive and giving me the confidence to continue trying," Foshee said, standing onstage a half hour after she was crowned by outgoing Miss Mississippi Kristian Dambrino of Grenada. "They've always told me I can do anything I put my mind to."
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