Since 1980, Njabini residents lived with Corona and celebrated him as a folk hero little did they know in 2019 ‘corona’ a virus ravaging on a global scale would ironically cause; bereavement,economic recession and many untold sufferings unlike the famed Corona Brothers who always unraveled entertainment packages for local revellers thanks to their conglomerate of Corona Cinemas, Corona Disco and Kinangop Corona Boys Band.

Born in 1960 at Kinangop, Nyandarua district, John Wanyoike Mbugua would realize his creative arts talent early enough and started diving into its worlds; during the 1979/80 school holidays, John enrolled at Creative Arts College in Nairobi where he trained as a graphic designer.

Earlier in 1978, John was attracted to music courtesy of Baraka Mwinshehe,Simba Wanyika and Francis Rugwiti who inspired him to venture into music writing and recording.

Before music, John and his brothers started the Corona cinemas in 1980 which aired movies to locals in the 80s, the robust Corona would still engage in film production in 1990 where he produced a comedy film in conjunction with KBC but the project would stalled for financial constraints,

The Corona Cinemas evolved to Corona Discos as music started talking course in his career which was the brainchild towards the formation of Kinangop Corona Boys Band in 1982; noteworthy that John adopted the name Corona here.

By 1982 assisted by Mike Mamicha(then D.K Manager)Corona had completed his first record project ‘Njong’i Ya Division’ and ‘Ritsya Ya Wendo’ on the flip; it was a work in progress as the record later would add up to other 10 songs he made to make a full cassette album completed in 1987.

The Corona Boys would expand their business by opening 3 music stores at Karangatha, Njabini and Engineer where they also offered repair services for music players, here they made many big name friends in the industry including D.K, Ndicu, Kamaru, Mukaramani, Kihingo,Muraya among many other which prompted John to music promotion in the region, to streamline his new path he purchased a generator which came in handy since electricity then was unheard of, this gave him an upper hand in organizing night boogies and dances at Kinangop halls, from then he went fully into music promotion and label management and worked with Musaimo Wa Njeri for close to 25 years managing and promoting his music career.

Besides music, Corona utilized his graphic design skills which landed him jobs at River Road designing cover arts for new record premieres and night out disco posters, he designed for Kamaru, Rugwiti, Githingithia amongst others

Currently John Corona does gospel music and couples up as a professional sign writer with a workshop at Njabini town