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- Follow Me
- 歌手：Do
- 語種：英语
- 時間：2006年06月
- 公司：Ariola Rec
Dutch Pop singer Dominique, just released her new album "Follow Me" last week, a great cd with the best dutch artist alive!! Her real name is dominique van der hulst.. You might know her from the song called 'heaven' she did with yanoo, and her previous cd called 'Do - Do'(self-titled).
Her name is Dominique Rijpma van Hulst but she travels as Do. Rhymes with "go", which is what she’s been doing all her 22 years. Here’s a suburban Dutch vignette from Eindhoven in the mid-80s: Do’s parents are playing tennis while she sits court-side under her Walkman singing along with Tina Turner’s Private Dancer.
It was a winding road for Do, everything from background vocals for other artists (Tony Hadley! In Maastricht!) to a duet with Marco Borsato (Holland’s No. 1) to a command performance for the Crown Prince of Morocco. And a lot of radio commercials. One such – was it Pioneer? Or BMW? – was produced by a man named Yanou . He conveniently arrived in Do’s life around the time that she was quite rightly feeling that she’d sung a little bit of everything, from pub rock to light opera, and now needed to knuckle down and find her own distinctive voice. Yanou suggested a cover of Bryan Adams’ early 80’s ballad Heaven. His love of trance inclined him to a heavily modified dance version of the song, but Do wisely insisted that she also record a version that was true to the original. By the time the double-A side was done, everyone involved was convinced they’d just created a breakout single. Which was, of course, exactly what happened. Number 1 in the UK, Number 3 in Australia, Number 4 on the US charts (and the only artists in history to have two versions of the same song simultaneously chart), Top 10 everywhere else!
“Follow Me" is an album's worth of consummate pop-soul, sung by a young woman whose talent and beauty are backed up by clear-eyed dedication.