Coron began singing at the age of three, greatly influenced by Michael Jackson. While performing his favorite song “Billie Jean” for his family members, he would get upset and cry when no one would watch him. Coron’s parents bought him a Dobb hat similar to Michael Jackson’s but the hat didn’t last long because Coron J-R threw the hat so many times while performing the Billie Jean dance routine. During his early school years, Coron was always the lead singer in the school plays and at the age of eight, Coron and his cousin’s performed “Momma” by Boyz 2 Men in his family’s talent show in his uncle’s backyard and had tears of joy in all of the mother’s eyes.

At the age of twelve, Coron began rapping after being influenced by his two older cousins, Shawn and Bruce. The three met up during the Thanksgiving break in November of 2002 and recorded on a karaoke machine in their grandmother’s basement. Coron and his cousins walked to the local music store to buy instrumental CD’s just to have beats to record on. A couple of months later, Coron’s grandmother gave him a Tape recorder and Coron recorded his first freestyle that lasted almost six minutes and he showed everyone in his family and received positive feedback. At the age of fifteen, Coron began to compose beats of his own with a program called MTVs Music Generator on his Sony Playstation 2 and recorded songs on three of the beats for the first time in a real recording studio with Mikey Rocks of the Cool Kids.

A few weeks after recording the songs, Coron sent the songs to a local Disc Jockey at one of Chicago’s largest radio stations for airplay consideration but unfortunately Coron was told that the music was not good enough for airplay and took the criticism to heart and stopped making music. A year later Coron met Macy Gray’s keyboardist, Freddie Moffett. Freddie heard Coron’s music and influenced Coron to continue to make music so Coron took the advice and the two began to work together. After recording three songs the duo stopped making music due to Freddie going on tour with Macy Gray. On August 15, 2008, Coron recorded a song entitled “Bout My Stacks” the night before he left for college and the song was sure to be a fans favorite. Two days later Coron arrived to Bethune Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida to begin school and while attending classes at BCU, Coron met with DJ Nailz.

Nailz guided Coron and played his song “Bout My Stacks” at a couple of clubs and the crowd went crazy asking who the artist was and where they could buy the song. After attending Bethune Cookman for only three weeks, Coron had to withdraw from the University and go back home to Illinois to find out that his single “Bout My Stacks” was on Chicago’s 107.5 WGCI competing against Def Jam recording artist Jeremih. In November of 2008 Coron released a song entitled “Number One” to 107.5 WGCI and once again ended up competing against Jeremih with his single “Birthday Sex” that went national and Coron ended up coming in second place on the radio show’s countdown. March of 2009 Coron wrote a song entitled “Picture Mail” and recorded it at his cousin’s house and later that day published it on Facebook and received over sixty comments in ten minutes. A couple of days later Coron rerecorded Picture Mail with engineer Ice Mike to have better quality for radio air play.

Coron submitted the song to Billboard radio to be reviewed and received the highest amount of stars a song could receive and was told that the song is good enough to go national. Coron premiered Picture Mail on The Realness Show with an interview and after the song was aired and Coron’s hotline began to receive numerous voicemails from fans expressing how much they loved the song. A few months later Coron and childhood friends C Millz and Jeremy Williams met up to record “Put it Down” and a few weeks later they performed the song while opening up for Kanye West’s recording artist GLC. The duo also performed at a nonprofit event, benefiting the WNBA Chicago Sky Cares Foundation to support women of need and shortly after, the duo received press from a local newspaper, Southtown Star and began to gain exposure.

Coron shared a stage with major recording artist Soulja Boy in Goshen, Indiana where they made history for being the first African Americans to perform in that town. A day after returning to work Coron was terminated from his job due to the fact that the supervisors didn't want Coron J-R to perform in the concert with Soulja Boy and decided to tell him that he could not have the day off anymore even though Coron requested off two months prior when he was booked for the concert. Coron did not let that situation stop him. He released a single entitled "Hands Up" that is sure to help him gain fame. “Hands up” has had airplay in New York, played in a few night clubs and has had an excellent response from fans, and the music video premiered on Fuse TV . Coron also performed on the same stage as major artist Avant along side with J Rowe performing there single “Ice Cream” that was also featured on the radio. Coron J-R plans to stay grounded, humble and inspired to make it in the music industry, so watch for Coron J-R as history is made.