Biography

After fifty years as a performer, Bruijs was celebrated with a concert at De Doelen on May 7, 2017, that featured North Sea Symphonic Bigbad Orchestra.

Joke Bruijs died, three days after ex-husband Gerard Cox.

At the age of 70, she retired from singing and acting in major films and productions due to a cognitive impairment that resulted in memory problems.

In 1970, she competed in the National Song Contest, performing the song "Okido" and placing fourth.

She worked with singer and actor Gerard Cox, and they married. They performed as husband and wife in two Dutch sitcoms: Vreemde praktijken (1989-1993; Strange Practices), followed the next year with the long-running series Toen was geluk heel gewoon (1994-2009; When Happiness Was Very Common). They worked together later, after they were no longer married, in the feature film Casa Coco (2022).