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The Singing Machine Company (SMC) was originally incorporated in California in 1982 with a focus on professional and semi-professional karaoke equipment. In 1988 the company began marketing karaoke equipment for home use. It is believed that SMD was the first company to introduce home karaoke products to the United States. [1]
Roberto Legaspi del Rosario (June 7, 1919 – July 30, 2003) was a Filipino entrepreneur; best known as the patentholder of the Sing-Along System, a type of karaoke appliance he developed in 1975. From his entrepreneurial initiative to patent a karaoke system first, he frequently, albeit arguably, became referred to as "the inventor of Karaoke".
The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology that was popular [2] from the mid-1960s until the late 1980s, when the compact cassette, which pre-dated the 8-track system, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music.
A person singing karaoke in Hong Kong ("Run Away from Home" by Janice Vidal). Karaoke (/ ˌ k ær i ˈ oʊ k i /; [1] Japanese: ⓘ; カラオケ, clipped compound of Japanese kara 空 "empty" and ōkesutora オーケストラ "orchestra") is a type of interactive entertainment system usually offered in clubs and bars, where people sing along to pre-recorded accompaniment using a microphone.
Dream Home, formerly Power House is a Philippine television talk show broadcast on GMA News TV and GMA Network. Originally hosted by Mel Tiangco , it premiered on February 28, 2011. [ 1 ] The show concluded on April 29, 2016.
A karaoke box (カラオケボックス, karaoke bokkusu) is a type of karaoke establishment commonly found in Asia, the United States and Canada. It originated in Japan, and is now popular worldwide, particularly in Asia. [1] Karaoke boxes consist of multiple rooms containing karaoke equipment, usually rented out for a period of time.
Karaoke Studio (Japanese: カラオケスタジオ, Hepburn: Karaoke Sutajio) is a karaoke music video game designed for Nintendo's Family Computer, or Famicom.The game is packaged with a hardware expansion subsystem designed to be inserted into the Famicom cartridge slot, and with a microphone peripheral capable of detecting a human voice.
"Powerhouse" (1937) is an instrumental musical composition by Raymond Scott, perhaps best known today as background music for chase and assembly line scenes in animated short films produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.