Currently based in Los Angeles, j.o.y.s. is a collective started by Ramon Narvaez; a multi-instrumentalist/poet of Puerto Rican descent that split time growing up in Central New Jersey and The Bronx.
j.o.y.s. is an acronym for “jump out of your skin”. While the phrase can conjure moments of shock and surprise, Narvaez, however uses the phrase as a foot lamp illuminating a path towards momentary transcendence - a sudden or gradual process of skin-shedding of former selves and past lives. j.o.y.s., as an album, reconciles with the past before blissfully stumbling into something new.
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