Groothuizen rose to fame as a member of the Dutch Dance/Pop girl group Dolly Dots, which achieved popularity inside and outside the Netherlands, and scored hits between 1979 and 1988.
The sextet consisted of Angela Groothuizen, Angéla Kramers, Anita Heilker, Esther Oosterbeek, Patty Zomer and Ria Brieffies.
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Groothuizen has since moved to RTL 4 where she was a panel judge for X Factor , The Voice of Holland and The Voice Kids.
Maria Petronella "Ria" Brieffies (February 23, 1957 - July 20, 2009) was a Dutch singer, best known as a member of 1980s girl group "Dolly Dots".
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In 1979 she joined the newly formed girl group Dolly Dots, who went on to become one of the most popular groups of the 1980s in the Netherlands.
Dolly Parton | Hello, Dolly! | Hello, Dolly! (musical) | Dolly Varden | Dolly Varden (character) | Dots Will Echo | Dolly Dots | Corn dolly | Hello, Dolly! (film) | Goodbye, Dolly Gray | Dolly Rathebe | Dolly Collins | Dolly | P. G. Wodehouse minor characters#Dora "Dolly" Molloy | Mine (Dolly Parton album) | Hello, Dolly! (song) | Dots per inch | 'Dolly' Williamson | Dolly West's Kitchen | Dolly Varden trout | Dolly Varden (costume) | Dolly Peel | Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede | Dolly My Baby | "Dolly" Molloy | Dolly Madison | Dolly Green | Dolly Gray | Dolly Buster | Dippin' Dots |
In the 1990s Brieffies retired from the music industry and became a qualified manicurist/pedicurist, before reuniting with the Dolly Dots in 2007 for a comeback tour which included three concerts to sell-out audiences of 10,000 at the Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam.