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.

Sally Disaster is a native Texan, born and raised in San Antonio. As far back as she can remember she’s wanted to play the drums. Same with wanting to leave Texas for California.

She, along with the one other punk rock girl in town, put her first band together in high school, playing house parties and all-ages clubs around San Antonio. After graduating from UT Austin and a year saving money, in January 1995 she packed up and hit the highway to San Francisco.

She played in some great bands right away, but all that changed in 1998 when she met some rad female musicians and started the all-girl punk band, Fabulous Disaster. When they returned from doing a self-funded Euro tour, the band signed to Fat Wreck Chords of Fat Mike NoFX. With Fat, they toured the US, Europe, Japan and Canada with bands like NoFX, The Mad Caddies and The Dickies.

When Fabulous Disaster broke up in 2007, she put together TurbonegrA, an all-girl tribute to Turbonegro. After releasing a record and a Euro tour, she got bored and moved back to Austin.

She connected with Dominique while playing shows in Austin, and Dogs & Diamonds was born. The rest of the story is yet to come . . .

Austin-based lead guitarist, Darryl “The Drill” Robbins is the newest addition to Dogs and Diamonds.

He has been a performing guitarist and vocalist since the late 70’s, touring regionally in Southwest and Midwest cover bands while completing a formal education in guitar – ranging from university-level classical guitar studies in Texas, to rock guitar studies from Los Angeles-based Musician’s Institute.

Darryl can now be found throwing down the riffs with Dogs and Diamonds, as well as performing as the guitarist for tribute band Firecracker Smile, The STP Experience.

Shelli Miller received her first guitar when she was 7 years old, joined her first band at 14, and never looked back.  She grew up in Houston, moved to Austin at age 17 and immediately joined local rock band Paramour.  It was in this band that Shelli honed her rhythm guitar and writing skills while obtaining a degree in Music Theory and Composition from The University of Texas at Austin. 

Following the release of their single, All We Have in Common, Paramour played extensively in Austin and Central Texas.  Shelli’s musical journey continued in blues rock band The Heat, a fixture at revered local club The Back Room, and then with Problem Child, another blues rock band that released two albums of her original material. 

Shelli is a prolific songwriter, having written and recorded more than 50 songs with more to come with her current project, Side Piece.  Shelli joined Dogs & Diamonds in 2024 and is thrilled to play with this powerful, hard-hitting group.   She can also be seen with Brass in Pocket, America’s Pretenders Tribute Band.