His daughter, Atsumi Takano, confirmed his death. Negishi's pioneering karaoke machine, dubbed the "Sparko Box," was first prototyped and released in 1967. The engineer loved to sing, and the idea ...

Other aspects of karaoke's origins remain debated, however, including who built the first karaoke machine and when. Some credit Japanese entrepreneur Shigeichi Negishi and his 1967 Sparko Box ...

It was a Japanese inventor and musician, Daisuke Inoue, who created the first karaoke machine in 1971, the Juke-8. However, the patent for the machine belongs to Filipino inventor Roberto del Rosario.