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Karaoke Fun Times is a locally owned and family operated
karaoke hire equipment business, servicing the Gold Coast region of
Queensland, Australia. We hire out karaoke machines and equipment on a nightly basis. Our karaoke equipment includes a range of items, basically everything you need to make your night memorable, hassle-free and most importantly, fun!
jukebox machine- karaoke (VCD) disc players
- karaoke machines
- laser disc players
- amplifiers
- speakers
- stands
- televisions
- microphones
- disco lights
- smoke machines
- a huge range of music
What is Karaoke?
More than just another form of entertainment, karaoke offers ordinary people the chance to shine - talent is not essential! Anyone who can read lyrics from a video screen can do karaoke.
The word karaoke is a hybrid of the Japanese “Karappo okusaturo” or “empty orchestra”. Usually, a song consists of both backing music and vocals, however karaoke music has this separated into two tracks.
Karaoke bars have become very popular in many countries around the world, not just Japan, as have karaoke restaurants with songs often available in different languages.
The History of Karaoke
This thoroughly enjoyable form of entertainment is actually quite young, with first reports of it stemming from Japan in the 1970s. The legend is, that a snack bar in Kobe began to play music and have people sing along after their regular entertainer failed to turn up for a performance. The owner happened to have recorded tracks of the strolling guitarist’s music, and put them on for the patrons to sing along to.
From there, karaoke spread rapidly throughout the country, evolving to use compact discs (CD's), video discs (VCD's) which could display a picture on a screen and song words as well, to eventually Laser discs and digital video discs (DVD's). The karaoke culture itself integrated into society, seeping into restaurants, conventions, weddings, and pretty much anywhere people can gather.