The idea of a device you could sing along with came to him when he was an engineer at an electronics company - a place where he would frequently sing around his colleagues.
Negishi took the comment in his stride before declaring he’d sound better with a backing track to sing along with.Inside Russia's abandoned gulag town in -50C Arctic where homes sell for 1p
To begin with the clever new music device simply used a microphone, speaker, and tape deck to play the tune.REIGN OF TERRORHe felt a lot of pride in seeing his idea evolve into a culture of having fun through song around the worldin seeing his idea evolve into a culture of having fun through song around the world.Negishi has left behind three loving children, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Despite the world being obsessed with karaoke for 50 years after the original Sparko Box was designed by Negishi, he reportedly only ever sold 8,000 products. This was because he struggled to get a patent for the product in Japan and soon left the tricky musicalAfter returning home he founded Nichiden Kogyo, an electrical devices company that helped to assemble transistor radios, hi-fi systems and car stereos for other manufacturers.All-Japan Karaoke Industrialist Association, the country's biggest karaoke manufacturers and retailers, credits Negishi.
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