A thick cloud of cigarette smoke hung in the air. Friends huddled at tables with long-neck beers on square wet napkins. At the end of the room, a big-screen TV exposed everyone to Speedo-clad WWF ...

Despite what you may have heard, karaoke isn’t Japanese for “tone deaf.” The word is a portmanteau of the Japanese kara, or “empty,” and oke, the shortened form of okesutora, meaning “orchestra.” But ...

It's hard to imagine, but there was once a time when karaoke didn't exist. Sure, there have long been singalongs and pianomen. And people have made drunken fools of themselves at bars since there were ...

The post Shigeichi Negishi, Entrepreneur and Engineer Who Invented Karaoke, Dead at 100 appeared first on Consequence. Shigeichi Negishi, the Japanese engineer that created the world’s first karaoke ...

Karaoke is one of Japan’s most ubiquitous worldwide exports. But who invented the first machine that let you sing along to backing tracks of popular hits? As author Matt Alt writes in his new book ...

Saturday Night Live loves to poke fun at things and sometimes, they nail it. Last night, with host Simu Liu and musical guest Saweetie, the show tackled one of the hardest things in the world: Karaoke ...

Karaoke’s story begins in late 1960s Japan with a man named Shigeichi Negishi. He owned Nichiden Kogyo, which made 8-track decks, and one day, he was singing along to a radio show called “Pop Songs ...