Daisuke Inoue, who was born in a small Japanese town in 1940. He was a drummer, by trade and sensibility, which means he ended up returning home "almost penniless" to live with his parents at the age of 28.
But the Japanese drummer also invented karaoke: "In 1969 the idea for the Juke 8 dawned on me: You would put money into a machine with a microphone, speaker and amplifier, and it would play the music people wanted to sing." Soon after he znd a friend built eleven Juke 8s. Each machine consisted of an amplifier, a microphone, a coin box and an eight-track car stereo.
The phrase 'empty orchestra' is kara okesutura in Japanese, which was shortened to form the word 'karaoke.'"