Shigeichi Negishi, from Tokyo, automated singalong machines in 1967 after a colleague accused him of singing badly at work.
Shigeichi Negishi was so inspired when someone told him he couldn’t sing that he invented karaoke The man who invented the world’s first karaoke machine has died aged 100. We have Shigeichi Negishi to thank for all the nights spent howling Total Eclipse of the Heart while several alcopops down. ‘Farewell to another legend’, author Matt Alt said this afternoon sharing the news.
‘He earned the enmity of performers who saw his machine as a threat to their jobs. It’s an eerie precursor of the debate surrounding AI’s impact on artists today,’ Mr Alt said. He wrote an obituary for Mr Negishi in the Wall Street Journal, having interviewed the inventor in 2018 for his book ‘Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World’. The centenarian was not the only inventor who helped make karaoke a global phenomenon, but he was the first.
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