With her first album, the self-edited "The Relief Sessions" (2012), Joana Serrat was chosen as 'Best Artist of the Week' by the Nashville website Noisetrade. She debuted as an actress in Family Tour, Liliana Torres' debut film and she also performed a live show at the YERSE catwalk at the 080 Barcelona Fashion Week.
In 2014, Serrat released "Dear Great Canyon" with the label El Segell del Primavera (PIAS UK). This second album is produced by Howard Bilerman, Grammy nominee for Arcade Fire's "Funeral" (2004). The canadians Gavin Gardiner (Juno Award nominee with his band The Wooden Sky) and Mike O’Brien (Vic Chesnutt) also played on the recording as session musicians.
While 'The Blizzard' was chosen as 'Song of the Week' by the English store Rough Trade, the album also featured in the AFYVE chart as one of the most sold albums in Spain. At the same time, her songs began to to receive regular play on BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Scotland and also at the ABC (Australian National Radio Station). British weekly music journalism magazine N.M.E. (New Musical Express) includes to Joana Serrat on the Radar section as a Next Big Thing and describes her album like 'Gorgeous'.
Her song 'Came Out Of The Blue' has been playing in the Australian television drama Winners & Losers (Episode 12 Season 5).
The "Dear Great Canyon" Tour took Joana to play in over 100 shows both in Spain and also Portugal, England, Holland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Canada and South Africa.
"Dear Great Canyon" has won the 'Best Album of the Year' spanish award by Premios Pop-Eye and 'Best Catalan Album of the Year In Other Languages' by Enderrock Magazine.