Shigeichi Negishi, the Japanese engineer who invented the first karaoke machine, has died at the age of 100.
While Negishi’s death is just being reported now, he died of natural causes on Jan. 26 after a fall. His daughter, Atsumi Takano, confirmed his death. machine, dubbed the “Sparko Box,” was first prototyped and released in 1967. The engineer loved to sing, and the idea for the machine came one morning at his electronics company in Tokyo after an employee heard his idle crooning and started teasing him. Negishi thought he’d sound much better if his voice was paired with a proper backing track.
As a broad concept, karaoke wasn’t technically new in either Japan or America, where all sorts of sing-along opportunities existed, from TV shows to coin-operated jukeboxes. In Japan, the term “karaoke” was used when singers performed with a backing track instead of a live musician; the word combined the Japanese words for “empty” .
Negishi ended his Sparko Box endeavor in 1975 . And by that time, too, others were arguably making greater inroads in turning karaoke into the global sensation it would become. Negishi was actually one of five people in Japan to independently come up with a karaoke machine between 1967 and 1971.
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