Daisuke Inoue
Daisuke Inoue ( Japanese 井上 大佑 Inoue Daisuke ; born May 10, 1940 in Osaka , Osaka Prefecture ) is a Japanese entrepreneur and is considered the inventor of the karaoke machine.
Life
Born in Osaka, he grew up in neighboring Nishinomiya . After graduating from school, he worked in a trading company until he started his own business as a manager and drummer in a band in 1970. This played in a bar in Kobe for business people who wanted to sing on stage themselves, the accompanying music. When a customer wanted Inoue's musical accompaniment on a business trip, he gave him a cassette with his companion and developed the idea of a karaoke machine from it. From 1971 onwards he leased them to bars in Kobe, then Osaka and Tokyo. He did not apply for a patent for his machine, and then earned money mainly from developing vermin repellants for the machines.
He was named one of the 100 most influential Asians of the century by Time in 1999 and received the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for his contribution to providing "a completely new way in which people can learn to tolerate one another".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Pico Iyer: Daisuke Inoue . In: Time . Vol. 154, No. 7 , August 23, 1999 ( online ( July 20, 2009 memento on WebCite )).
- ↑ Will Woodward: Nobels oblige. In: Guardian. October 4, 2004, accessed July 10, 2013 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Inoue, Daisuke |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 井上 大佑 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese inventor of the karaoke machine |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osaka |