Darlene "Red Elk" Myers
Former SD country star looks to expand her ministry
‘You should be singing for God, instead of singing for the devil’
By Richie Richards
Native Sun News Staff Writer
www.nsweekly.com ROSEBUD –– As Darlene “Red Elk” Myers (formerly Darlene DeSersa) sang her Lakota heart out in a smoke-filled, country & western club in Bordentown, N.J., a friend continuously came to her shows inviting her to church. This was in the 1990’s. At the time, Myers dodged beer bottles like she dodged the Bible’s teachings. “You’ve been singing for the devil. You should come sing for the lord,” her friend would plead. It was in the Frontier Room in Bordentown, after 40 years of performing in honkytonks and night clubs, when now-Pastor Myers (Sicangu Lakota) decided to accept her friend’s persistent invitation to “come sing one song” in a local church on Sunday. This is when the recent inductee to the Legends of South Dakota Country Music Association (Sept. 27, 2015) and runner-up in the first Miss Indian America in 1954 decided to leave the lifestyle she now associates with the devil.
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