Volume 18 • No. 17 • September 1 - 15 , 2022 Publication Mailing Account #41721512
Herlene Budol
Jesse James Baris wins Pinoy Pop Star
8 Pinoy Pop Star Season 5 winners. From l-r: Keesha Mae Mari, 3rd prize; Jesse James Baris, Grand Champion; Joy Reyes, 2nd prize. Photo by Arnel San Jose of Jeprox Photography. See more photos on p15.
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Jodi Sta. Maria & Coco Martin COMING SOON... THIS FALL. Inside the judges’ room, after the scores have been calculated and finalized. The grand final judges, seated l-r: Yvanne Dandan Caballero, Frank Urbano, Paul Ong, Michele Majul-Ibarra, and Jon Malek. Back l-r: Emcee Lucille Nolasco Garrido, Pilipino Express Editor-in-chief Emmie Joaquin, Accountants/ Tabulators: Connie De Villa, Belle De Leon, and Leah Beltran CPA. Photo: Arnel San Jose, Jeprox Photography Jesse James Baris was named Champion in the Grand Final of the Pinoy Pop Star Season 5 singing competition on Friday, August 26, 2022. After a delay of two and a half years since the semi-final phase of the contest in January 2020 – due to the COVID-19 pandemic – fourteen excellent singers from Winnipeg’s Filipino community performed to another sell-out
house at the McPhillips Station Casino. Baris, an active member in the performing arts community and local community centres, runs his own glee club while working as a store manager and working in the promotions department at a local radio station. He took the top prize of $2000 and the Grand Prize trophy with his performance of Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge
Over Troubled Water. Joy Reyes placed second with a prize of $750 and a trophy for her powerful rendition of the OPM song Luha by the band Aegis. Keesha Mae Mari sang the inspiring song The Impossible Dream from the musical Man of La Mancha to win third place with a prize of $500 and a trophy. See JESSE p14