He did this, he said, at the request of many of his clients, who wanted to be able to sing along to his music even when he wasn’t performing. Karaoke was introduced in 1971, when Daisuke Inoue, a professional drummer in Kobe in Kansai (western Japan), figured out a way to offer instrumental tracks without a vocal. In those spaces, amateur singers of all levels are able to sing lead on their favorite songs, with the full backing of that “empty orchestra.”
It is in those empty places that the magic – or, let’s be honest, the train wreck – happens. The word is a portmanteau of shortened versions of the words for empty ( kara) and orchestra ( oke), creating karaoke, or “empty orchestra.” This poetic phrase well describes what are simply music tracks, shorn of their lead vocals.
Of all the forms of contemporary Japanese entertainment that have reached international audiences, perhaps the most unique, and surely the most ubiquitous, is karaoke.
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