[4] His eponymous debut album was released in 2005 and revealed that Promis was already influenced by the French chanson method and adult pop music structure, but there was a decidedly lo-fi element to the long player.

The album was released on Sahin's label "Young Pals Music[6]" and featured a full pop sound where he partnered with several other singers like Karine Hannah on the song "Lovesick".

In 2012, Promis and his producer Matthews began work on Vertigo Heights, one of two albums to emerge from the pair in a four year span that combined cabaret and Balkan to electronic to straightforward pop/rock; Sunset Blvd.

was inspired by the classic 1950 Billy Wilder film and included among its impressive song roster an electro-pop oriented cover of Amanda Lear's "The Sphinx."

[9]" Having sharpened his handsome brand of quirky, erudite pop, Promis encountered a series of personal and professional changes in his life which helped to shape the next chapter of his artistic evolution.

Firstly, Promis decided to utilize his full name—José Promis—after years of being cautious about navigating a fickle American landscape where he would have been mistakenly pegged as a solely Latin oriented pop act.

In the beginning of 2016 his original songs comprised most of the musical A Night at the Black Cat Theatre at the Edgemar Center for the Arts in Santa Monica.