Hi, I enjoy karaoke nights with friends because I like to sing, even though I am not a professional.
karaoke" is also used by recording engineers to refer to an instrumental version of a recording,without the vocals 
I did not know that, karaoke was originally developed in japan and can also incorporate interactive games.
Many artists, amateur and professional, perform in situations where a full band/orchestra is either logistically or financially impractical
That's understandable because those things can be expensive. Daisuke Inoue was the man who invented the 1st karaoke styled machine.
. The primary difference between Karaoke and sing-along songs is the absence of the lead vocalist.
Sing-alongs (present since the beginning of singing) fundamentally changed with the introduction of new technology. In the late 1960s and into the 1970s, stored audible materials began to dominate the music recording industry and revolutionized the portability and ease of use of band and instrumental music by musicians and entertainers as the demand for entertainers increased globally. This may have been attributable to the introduction of music cassette tapes, technology that arose
pub's karaoke night and the pair began writing tracks together. Wilson later recalled "What struck me at first was that he could play piano and guitar and he was a great foil for what I was doing... After a while playing together he said, 'Can I sing this one?' I said, 'Do you know the words?'... [he had a] mighty voice. A lot of people can play guitar... Not many can sing like that."
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