At age 13 she was seeing bands like The Cramps, The Dickies, X, Stiv Bators, David Johansen live at Whisky A Go Go in LA. She was later accepted to Music & Art in Harlem NY. Coming from a theatrical NYC born family she started off at 19 on off Broadway with director John Cassavetes who cast her in the play Thornhill about Eugene O’Neill playing opposite Ben Gazarra, Carol Kane and Patti LuPone .
Dominique has been singing and playing bass for 20+ years for many different touring and recording groups both in America and throughout Europe with Gods Hotel (featuring Spike from the Quireboys) , Tito and Tarantula, Pearl (featuring meatloafs daughter Pearl and Scott Ian from Anthrax) and Annabella Lwin from Bow Wow Wow.. One of her main projects was called Dominatrix, which reached high on the dance charts. The Dominatrix music video ‘The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight’ and their live shows are a part of why in 2012 and again in 2022, this music video was placed on display in the contemporary art wing of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Later Dominique was cast for starring roles in several indie flicks as well as a role in the George Lucas film Howard The Duck. George Clinton and Thomas Dolby were her mentors while working on the soundtrack for the film and they told her that bass should be her focus and she took it to heart.
She has penned songs for several films including a song in the Disney Film “Honey we shrunk ourselves”. Dominique played bass in the Keenan Ivory Wayans show house band. It gave her the chance to work with many top artists. Her passion for songwriting is in full force today with long standing songwriting and band partner… the fiercely talented Kathy Valentine. Their band The BlueBonnets who have been called ‘glamorous blues rock’ but actually break out of any genre with current heavy and thrashy cuts plus pop sensibility and explosive harmonies. They have toured with The Waterboys and opened up for Jimmie Vaughan, Smashing Pumpkins, Arc Angels and multiple Texas Favorites.
The last project that The Bluebonnets were hired for was to record with Ray Wylie Hubbard on a Title Track from his “Co-Starring Too” Album called” Only a fool” The Video to be released soon. Dominique was hired to record bass with Willie Nelson singing a duet with Ray Wylie.. and that was her latest highlight.
