His most famous songs include "Birinchi muhabbatim", "Inson qasidasi", "Karvon", "Oshiqlar sardori", and "Oʻzbegim", which are regularly played at public events and weddings in Uzbekistan and neighboring Central Asian countries.

Joʻrayev wrote the screenplay and played the leading role in the 1989 film Sherali va Oybarchin.

Following the death of President Islam Karimov in 2017, the unofficial ban on Joʻrayev was lifted and in subsequent years he was regularly featured on state television.

Joʻrayev's was frequently invited to important state celebrations and other countries to perform, including Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Russia.

In honour of Queen Elizabeth II's 78th birthday, British Ambassador Craig Murray welcomed more than a thousand guests to his residence in Tashkent on 23 April 2004.

At the same time, the British Embassy arranged a tour of Uzbekistan by Scotland's Battlefield Band, with whom Joʻrayev performed at the residency before a large and influential audience.

[5] In 2023, a few months before his death, he published his second book entitled Bir qoʻshiq kuylayki.... Joʻrayev also wrote the screenplay and played the leading role in the 1989 film Sherali va Oybarchin.

Joʻrayev was also reported to have been briefly married to the dancer Zulxumor Qodirova, who later became a Meritorious Artist of Uzbekistan.

[10] The relationship received much media scrutiny, especially after Qodirova's son Botir Qodirov, also a singer, claimed Joʻrayev was his father.

[10] In 2024, a district court ruled that Qodirov is, in fact, Joʻrayev's biological son, and ordered that his birth certificate be reissued to reflect this.

[15] Throughout his career Joʻrayev received dozens of awards and nominations, including the title People's Artist of the Uzbek SSR (1987).