Our Regular Karaoke Evenings

Wednesday nights with “T & W Entertainment”
And
Sunday nights with “The Captain”

For those who just need to let out their musical side we have got Karaoke now at Spot 1 Bar & Grill. To those who are not familiar with Karaoke, here’s a brief explanation of it.

Karaoke has now become quite popular over the years, it’s been said that it originated in Kobe but it hasn’t been confirmed and there’s actually been a story where a bar owner’s hired performer did not arrive so he decided to put on music and ask people to go up to sing. The word Karaoke is derived of two words; ‘kara’ (alike Karate, also known as “empty hand”) and ‘oke’ (which is short for the Japanese word okesutora) meaning orchestra. So instead of putting on songs that have singing already, this puts on only music and lets people go up and sing with a microphone in hand and a screen which shows the lyrics to the song. For those who have a fear singing in front of people, or just being in front of people in general, they are welcomed to take a friend or even several friends with them to sing along.

Going a bit deeper into Karaoke for the Japanese,

From ancient times, a party become enlivened when someone started singing and the others kept time with hand-clapping, making the atmosphere more cheerful. It has never mattered whether the person sings well or not. Even if he sings out of tune, it can spark laughter and make the party more lively.

Having such a custom, the Japanese are generous when they listen to other people sing, and can easily sing in front of others without feeling reluctance. This also seems to be one of the reasons that karaoke has been largely accepted in Japanese society.

Karaoke was born in a night amusement quarter at the end of the high economic growth period. Until then, customers used to listen to popular songs via radio, request favorite songs by telephone, and the radio station put the songs on the air. Such a system continued for quite a while.

However, it might be unnatural for many Japanese who like singing to only listen to other people sing.

It was then that karaoke appeared on the scene. Holding a microphone and singing a song to the accompaniment of an “orchestra,” you can feel like a professional singer. If other customers give you a big hand, you feel all the happier. Karaoke has thus stimulated people’s desire to sing. For corporate soldiers living in a stressful society, there is no other entertainment that can make them feel very refreshed. Consequently, karaoke immediately spread from Kansai all over Japan.