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Dutch singer and actress known by her stage name Do. Dominique Rijpma van Hulst was born in 1981 in Valkenswaard, Netherlands. She was raised by her stepfather Willem-Jan van Hulst, a popular tennis coach. At age fifteen, she planned to compete in Wimbledon, but an injury ended her tennis career. Her first musical performance was in café Old Dutch in Valkenswaard, which led to a record label deal with Sony Music BMG.

Before she even released a single, she was a supporting act for the tour of 5ive and Montell Jordan in the Netherlands. The first single Do released was the song “Real Good”. Although the music video was played a lot on the Dutch music channel TMF, it was not a hit song in the Netherlands. Do’s self-titled debut, Do, was released in 2004, and reached No. The first single from the album, “Voorbij”, a duet with Marco Borsato, reached No. After the tsunami disaster in Indonesia, Do joined several Dutch artists to record a song for the victims of the tsunami. 1 in the Netherlands and stayed there for several weeks.

All of the profits from the song went to the victims of the tsunami disaster. Do’s second album, Follow Me, was released in the Netherlands on 19 June 2006. The first single was also called “Follow Me”. The song was written by Bryan Adams and had already been recorded by Melanie C in 1999. The second single from Follow Me was “Beautiful Thing”. This song did better in the charts than “Follow Me” and it peaked at No. It stayed in the Top 40 for 9 weeks.

In 2006, Do did a tour called Follow Me theater tour. The fourth single from the album was “I Will”. It was released in February 2007. The song was re-recorded in Sweden. However, no video was made and the song failed to chart. Do has also had a Dutch EP, entitled “Zingen in het Donker”.

The self-titled song was recorded in 4 different languages. The proceeds were sent to a charity for Domestic Violence victims. On 20 December 2009, Do premiered a new song, called “Nobody But Me”, which was said to be off her upcoming album. In 2010, Dominique Rijpma van Hulst released an LP version of “Zingen in het Donker”. The album contains 10 tracks from DO, and unlike her previous albums, “Zingen in her Donker” is completely in Dutch. The first single is titled after the name of the album. From November 2007 to March 2008, Do starred in Assepoester, a Dutch version of Cinderella, as the title character.

On 7 July 2007, Do married Marc Verschoor in Barcelona. The couple divorced in 2010 but reconciled in 2012. She gave birth to a son on 2 January 2014. Do posed nude in, and was featured on the cover of, the January 2009 issue of the Dutch edition of Playboy.