The band was formed in 1975 from members of the two previously locally successful groups Gospeltrane and Gospelband Sunshine from the Siegen area. The band members took their name Damaris Joy from a birth announcement in the newspaper. After initially changing the line-up, the following line-up emerged at the end of the 1970s: Helmut Jost , singer and bassist, his brother Frieder Jost and Pit Naujoks on electric guitars and acoustics, Ute Naujoks vocals, percussion and strings, Hans-Martin Wahler on keyboards, Andy Braach on drums, trombone and congas, Karl-Friedrich Wahler on drums and Ralf Freudenberg on sound engineering. In the following years the line-up changed several times. The list of band members includes Thomas Adam, Sebastian Cuthbert , Martin Stoeck and Armin Müller.
After five years of concert activity, the band decided to produce a record. Due to initial financial reservations on the part of the Christian rock label Lord Records (today's Gerth Medien ), the band initially recorded a live album in October 1980. Released in 1981, the record was a resounding success, so that the first studio album followed in early 1983. Over the years Damaris Joy has developed into one of the most successful Christian rock bands in Germany with sales of up to 8,000 units of their last studio album, Open Door, before it was dissolved at the end of 1988. After fifteen years, the band made a brief comeback with Limited Edition in 2002, which it broke however, reappeared in 2005 due to internal problems.
At the Promikon music fair in Giessen in 2011, the band could again be experienced live at the gala "Forever Young - 50 Years of Christian Pop Music in Germany".
