FEATURES
By Kevin Cowherd | October 11, 2001
JOEY P remembers the first time he tried it, how it made him feel, the warm rush that enveloped him long into the night. It was at a bar in Cockeysville 12 years ago. Someone said: "You oughta try it, man." Nah, that stuff's not for me, Joey P said. Maybe someone else called him a chicken, although he can't be certain of that. Anyway, he finally swallowed his fear and tried it. Man, it was everything they said it was. Pretty soon, he couldn't get enough of it. He was doing it two, three times a week.
ENTERTAINMENT
By SAM SESSA | May 17, 2007
Frazier's on the Avenue wasn't ready for my falsetto. To be honest, I wasn't ready to unleash my full vocal onslaught at the bar's famous karaoke night, either. My buddies Evan and Jeremy and I went a couple of weeks ago with the best intentions. Even so, Evan and I ended up making fools out of ourselves. Frazier's has hosted karaoke every Tuesday night for several years now. Over time, it has built up a reputation as one of the city's best spots for self-inflicted embarrassment. The bar, which occupies two adjacent buildings, is split into two sections.
NEWS
August 25, 1997
Taneytown Police Chief Melvin Diggs will perform karaoke at a benefit for the Maryland Special Olympics from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday at American Legion Post 120, 9 Broad St., Taneytown.The second annual fund-raiser features singing, dancing, food and raffles.Admission is a donation to the Special Olympics.Information: 410-751-1150.FiresWestminster: A Taneytown resident told police that someone broke into her business at Carroll Plaza and stole $150 Thursday.Reese: An employee of Bell Atlantic in Woodlawn told police that someone stole a pay telephone from the vacant carnival grounds in the 1700 block of Baltimore Blvd.
FEATURES
By New Scientist | March 30, 1998
LONDON -- Yes, Elvis lives. And soon he may be singing your song.Ken Lomax of the University of Cambridge has developed a way to reproduce the singing and speaking styles of performers, living and dead. So far, Lomax has generated voice "templates" for opera stars Maria Callas and Kiri Te Kanawa -- and the king of rock 'n' roll.Lomax's "voice morpher" builds a template of a performer's voice from recordings. It captures features of the performer's distinctive singing style, such as how the words of a song are pronounced, the tone of the voice and the characteristic timing of certain phrases.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Michael James and Michael James,SUN STAFF | February 5, 2001
Pablo Retes is a 47-year-old police instructor in Nayarit, Mexico. Anne Hiscock, 44, is a Web site administrator a half a world away in Tasmania. But on any given day, they may be crooning directly to each other - and to a worldwide cyber-karaoke audience of 50,000 would-be pop singers. "When I sing an Elvis tune, the world's out there listening," says Retes, one of a growing number of karaoke fans letting loose on the Internet. "I never sing in bars. Just on the Web." Adds Hiscock: "It's wonderful.
FEATURES
By Sherry Stripling and Sherry Stripling,Seattle Times | September 8, 1993
By day, No. 6 in the karaoke contest doesn't get much feedback from her boss.Almost certainly, she doesn't hear "Awesome!" or "You were so good."But No. 6, Tiffany, is bombarded with such accolades as she comes off the stage at a restaurant in Seattle on a recent work night. She was terrific, her mates tell her. Too bad she doesn't win the singing contest, but she basks in the praise.The need for a moment in the spotlight is what's given The International Karaoke Intelligence (TIKI) its galloping circulation since it started 18 months ago in Seattle, one of the first if not the first newspaper in the country devoted to karaoke.