"s much as Mao Zedong or Mohandis Gandhi changed Asian days," Time author Pico Iyer wrote, "Inoue transformed its nights." Following the exposure by Time, Inoue attracted the attention of international media. In 1999, Time magazine recognized Inoue's role in the newly international craze, describing him as among "The Most Influential Asians of the Century".
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In 1996, Inoue's connection to karaoke was first publicized by a TV channel in Singapore. Subsequently, Inoue launched the All-Japan Karaoke Industrialist Association. In the 1990s, with eight-track karaoke out of use, Inoue turned his company towards working with Daiichikosho, then the top karaoke company, but though he was earning considerable money as chairman of the company left it when he suffered a period of depression. In the 1980s, he ran a business engaged in securing licensing for music in eight-track karaoke machines. Inoue did continue in the field, inventing a pesticide to repel cockroaches and rats that destroy the electronics within karaoke machines. A Filipino, Roberto del Rosario filed a patent for a karaoke machine system, the Sing Along System, which del Rosario developed in 1975. Inoue did not patent his invention and so did not directly profit from the invention that started a booming industry. They proved popular, and a trend was born. Thinking that the idea might have widespread appeal, he began in 1971 renting to bars in Kobe eleven machines outfitted with tapes and amplifiers which he had assembled along with some friends.
He supplied the businessman with taped accompaniment instead.
He developed the basic idea of karaoke, which means "empty orchestra", when one client wanted Inoue to back him during a business trip that Inoue could not attend. He started playing drums in high school, but was not particularly skillful, as a result of which he took on the business management of his band, which provided back-up music in a club for businessmen who wanted to take the stage. He was raised in Nishinomiya, the son of a pancake vendor with a stall behind a train station. Daisuke Inoue was born in Osaka, Japan on May 10, 1940.