Posts from ‘October, 2007’

Karaoke is “kara” and “oke” in Japanese. Kara comes from “karappo” meaning empty, and oke comes from “okesutura” meaning orchestra. Commonly, a song when recorded has vocals and accompaniment, but music tapes with only the accompaniment recorded were named “karaoke.”
Today, this Japanese word is a Japanese word no more. Take a look at the most [...]

Do you know that karaoke has its own competition that covers contestants across the globe? It’s karaoke world championships!
This competition originated in Finland in 2003 with seven countries. The international karaoke competition features almost thirty countries around the world! It works like any other global competition, where there is a national contest initially held in [...]

Karaoke becoming a widespread phenomenon has penetrated different aspects of entertainment, including video games, in mobile phones, computers and the Internet.
In video games, there is the Karaoke Revolution by Konami, which is produced for PlayStation2.  This console was made available in North America in 2003 and was finally released for the Microsoft Xbox in late [...]

How many times have you seen karaoke as part of the cast in movies? If you’re a karaoke fan, you know when your favorite singing gadget has appeared as a film prop. Like in my My Best Friend’s Wedding, when Julia Robert’s character wanted to embarrass Cameron Diaz’ character in front of everyone, including obviously [...]