Joos van Barneveld, better known as DOES, was born in Veghel, The Netherlands, in 1982. His prime passion was soccer and he trained and played as a professional player for soccer club Fortuna Sittard from the age of 9. In 1997 he discovered graffiti, a passion that coerced him into a double life.

For more than a decade he was forced to combine the daily needs of a professional athlete with the night-time secrets of a graffiti writer.In 2010 a knee injury forced him to give up his career as a soccer player and rethink his future.