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Shigeichi Negishi

Japanese inventor

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born: 1923
died: 2024
age at death: 100
known for: entrepreneur, engineer, businessperson

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Shigeichi Negishi 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.

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