Inoue Daisuke

For your browsing pleasure, here's an article with some of the backstory about the invention of karaoke. There's now a new biopic of the guy playing in Japan. Maybe it will make it over here with subtitles.

Inoue Daisuke taught the world to sing with the karaoke machine but never bothered to patent it, losing his chance to become one of Japan's richest men. Is he bitter?

For a man who lost out on one of music's biggest paychecks, Daisuke is in fine form: toothy smile spreading over the big, rough-hewn face of a natural comedian.