Founded in 2007, Taiwan’s iKala is a cloud-based online karaoke service. Instead of buying expensive karaoke equipment bundled with soon-to-be-outdated tunes, iKala reinvents karaoke via the internet ...
It's been a way to unwind and get a deal done in Asia for over 40 years; crooning like Sinatra, camping it up like Abba or rocking like Elvis, often to a room full of stone-faced men in suits. Karaoke ...
"Oh no, 4 hours are enough! Please, let's go home," I beg. But my Chinese friends, without even listening to me, enthusiastically keep on singing. Where does the Asian desire to spend half their life ...
For Asian Americans, there's an odd sense of comfort in holding a mic and singing along to the midi version of schmaltzy pop hits. Whether they're tunes by Basil Valdez, Sin Sisamouth or Frank Sinatra ...
Yunxiao Jiang sets up the next song for Hui Huang at La Shangrila in Sweetwater. Rodolfo Roman For the Miami Herald Hui Huang remembers holding the microphone and singing her lungs out at a karaoke ...
Watch American Idol any week, and you may hear an epithet — karaoke. For Simon Cowell, the famously rude British judge, the word has become shorthand to damn any contestant for hokey, amateurish ...
Something about singing at karaoke bars seems to bring out the worst in people, particularly in East Asia, where this 'art form' originated. The Daily Telegraph newspaper of Britain recently reported ...
In karaoke bars around the world, few songs are belted out with more relish and enthusiasm than the Frank Sinatra standard "My Way". Except, that is, in the Philippines. After a series of killings ...
Crooning like Sinatra, camping it up like Abba or rocking like Elvis, often to a room full of stone-faced men in suits - it's been a way to unwind and get a deal done in Asia for over 40 years..