Roberto Legaspi del Rosario (June 7, 1919 – July 30, 2003) was a Filipino entrepreneur; best known as the patentholder of the ''Sing-Along System'', a type of
karaoke
is a type of interactive entertainment system usually offered in nightclubs and bars, where people sing along to pre-recorded accompaniment using a microphone.
Its musical content is an instrumental rendition of a well-known popular song. I ...
appliance he developed in 1975. From his entrepreneurial initiative to patent a karaoke system first, he frequently, albeit arguably, became referred to as "the inventor of Karaoke".
Patent rights to karaoke
Del Rosario held the patent to the ''Sing-along System'', a type of
karaoke
is a type of interactive entertainment system usually offered in nightclubs and bars, where people sing along to pre-recorded accompaniment using a microphone.
Its musical content is an instrumental rendition of a well-known popular song. I ...
he developed in 1975, and was consequently recognized as the sole patent holder of the karaoke system worldwide.
He filed a patent infringement case against a Chinese company before the Philippine
Supreme Court
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. In 1996, the court ruled that the Chinese company violated his patent rights. Despite this, a book entitled ''Karaoke Idols: Popular Music and the Performance of Identity''
credits
Daisuke Inoue
is a Japanese businessman best known as an inventor of the karaoke machine. Inoue, a musician in his youth employed in backing businesspeople who wanted to sing in bars, invented the machine as a means of allowing them to sing without live ba ...
, a
Japanese
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* Something from or related to Japan, an island country in East Asia
* Japanese language, spoken mainly in Japan
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man, as having invented karaoke earlier in 1971.
See also
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Daisuke Inoue
is a Japanese businessman best known as an inventor of the karaoke machine. Inoue, a musician in his youth employed in backing businesspeople who wanted to sing in bars, invented the machine as a means of allowing them to sing without live ba ...
*
Karaoke
is a type of interactive entertainment system usually offered in nightclubs and bars, where people sing along to pre-recorded accompaniment using a microphone.
Its musical content is an instrumental rendition of a well-known popular song. I ...
References
External links
Biography of Roberto del RosarioKaraoke History
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Filipino inventors
Science and technology in the Philippines
People from Manila
1919 births
2003 deaths