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Shigeichi Negishi, the renown creator of the karaoke machine, dies at the age of 100: After being mocked for his singing, a electronics engineer conceived the idea

www.dailymail.co.uk, March 15, 2024
Shigeichi Negishi was born in Tokyo in 1923 and later developed to own an electronics company. He had his lightbulb moment when a coworker caught him singing at work and chastised him for how bad it was. He thought to himself that if he could sing to a back track, it would change everything, and in 1967, the world saw the invention of the Sparko Box, which led to other businesses producing various styles of machines. 'How Japan Made The Modern World,' Matt Alt, author of the book "How Japan Made the Modern World," said goodbye to another legend.'