Unlike most of his peers in the ballroom world Jesse started dancing very late in life and relies more on his raw talent and steely determination rather than decades of training and experience. It wasn't until he was 19 and looking for a job did he stumble across what was to become his true calling. His mother persuaded him to answer a newspaper ad looking to train inexperienced dancers for three months and the rest is history. Discovering he had a gift, he put his all into becoming a professional dancer and only seven years later he is an American Rhythm champion as well as being a top instructor.
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Unlike most of his peers in the ballroom world Jesse started dancing very late in life and relies more on his raw talent and steely determination rather than decades of training and experience. It wasn't until he was 19 and looking for a job did he stumble across what was to become his true calling. His mother persuaded him to answer a newspaper ad looking to train inexperienced dancers for three months and the rest is history. Discovering he had a gift, he put his all into becoming a professional dancer and only seven years later he is an American Rhythm champion as well as being a top instructor.
What do you get when you cross a musician, an athlete, an artist and a pastor’s son? Who would have guessed- one of the top professional ballroom dancers in the country and co-manager of the fastest growing dance studios in Fred Astaire history! Jesse DeSoto started as a dance instructor in 1999 at a Fred Astaire Dance Studio near his hometown of Greendale, WI. He discovered that his love for competition, challenge of the dance floor and freedom for artistic expression were a perfect match for a future in ballroom dancing!
Because of Jesse and Jackie’s success in American Rhythm competition, Jesse DeSoto has become well known in the dance competitive circles. So well known, that when the producers of "Dancing with the Stars" were looking for an additional male instructor they found Jesse and offered him a 2 year contract for the blockbuster reality show- “Dancing with the Stars.”
