When he was seven years old, his sister pushed him to join a singing competition and taught him the popular Cliff Richard song 'Bachelor Boy'.

His school principal, Sister Mabilia, understood his passion for music and since then she never missed an opportunity to encourage him into singing and taking part in stage acts.

It includes Sting, The Beatles, The Eagles, Iron Maiden, The Police, Ozzy Osbourne, Joe Satriani, Eric Clapton, U2, etc.

Barua started his career by singing jingles for several advertising campaigns including Fiat Linea, Vodafone, Reliance, LG, Hero Honda, Nescafe, Club Mahindra, Yatra.com etc.

His notable playback singing for Hindi films include Dev.D, Udaan, Luv Ka The End, Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge, Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara.

[3] In 2014, he collaborated with Shruti Haasan and composed an Assamese-Tamil fusion song titled Prithibi Ghure and performed together in an INKtalks live event.

While 'Rabha' narrated an incident of the legendary Bishnu Rabha, collaborated with American saxophonist George Brooks,[5] 'Na Jujor Ronuwa' stressed on the lesser-known, but the largest tribe within Assam, the Koch-Rajbongshi's.

Joi composed the background score for a short film Playing Priya and sang its title track with Jonita Gandhi.

[16] Conceptualized on an original story by Dr. Susan Lim and Christina Teenz Tan,[17] this is a collaborative venture with musicians across continents.

A conversation with Dr. Lim at an INK Talks conference in 2017 at Singapore, where Joi performed and showcased his song 'Rabha' for the first time[18] led to the project.

French musicians Manu Martin[19][20] and Matthieu Eymard,[21] along with Ron Danziger[22] from Australia, co-composed the original songs that form the 21 vignettes of the thirty-three minute album.