“‘Piece of cake, boss,’ he told me.” A machine was on his desk just three days later. Negishi took the device, which he called “the Sparko Box,” home ... to sing, so I invented karaoke.

As a keen music lover, Lowson decided to sing for the residents using the nursing home's karaoke ... back and bought a load of cakes for the resid ents and staff to say thank you for giving me ...

He lives in New York City where he writes about TVs and home ... Karaoke's popularity has ebbed and flowed over the years, but the people who are into it are really into it. Most karaoke fans sing ...

To line up a song, simply add a library to a microSD card and slot it in the back of the speaker ... If, like me, you happen to love music and karaoke but have a brain like a sieve for lyrics ...