Shigeichi Negishi | |
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根岸 重一 | |
Born | Tokyo, Japan | November 29, 1923
Died | January 26, 2024 | (aged 100)
Education | Hosei University |
Children | 3 |
Shigeichi Negishi (November 29, 1923 – January 26, 2024) was a Japanese engineer who invented the earliest prototype of the karaoke machine. Using a speaker, a microphone, and a tape deck, he was able to simultaneously amplify his voice and play an instrumental backing track. Although Daisuke Inoue receives more international recognition for a similar invention, the All-Japan Karaoke Industrialist Association recognizes Negishi as the first among five independent inventors of the karaoke machine.[1]