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[Florian Peitz]

Youmight have the most impressive pipes in the whole of your city. You might sound like a strangled cat when you sing, especially after a few drinks. But whatever your range and ability, you will take to the stage for one of these karaoke songs. And it will be brilliant.

Choosing the right song is crucial. If you can't sing in tune, perhaps opt for a rap. If you want to show off that high range, potentially opt for a bit of Whitney. In our list of the best karaoke songs ever, we've got everyone from Madonna to Lizzo, and from Toto to Frank Sinatra. Take a shot and warm up those vocal chords, people. These are the best karaoke songs ever.

That riff, a cross between a sitar and a revving dirt bike, is the most recognizable thing about the song. For such a ubiquitous hit, the lyrics continually surprise beyond the titular chorus. So much so that when Cat Power covered the tune in 2000, slicing off the refrain, it was a strange new poem about the anxiety of commercials and subliminal advertising. This from the first rock band to develop a brand logo, a pair of juicy red lips.

Two weeks later, on July 27, 2018, the same four men returned to Music Cafe, which was tucked behind a bakery and tea shop called Sancha Bar at 251 9th Street. They bought the company of more young women and purchased more drugs.

The four state agents with the Department of Alcohol Beverage Control made their five undercover visits to Music Cafe in 2018 after getting a tip that the karaoke bar was operating past 2 a.m., selling narcotics, and breaking other laws, according to investigative records.

Dozens of illegal bars, casinos, nightclubs, brothels, and similar establishments are busted every year in Oakland, and the sting targeting Music Cafe would be unremarkable except for one fact: public records link the business and at least one of its hosts to a suspected political money laundering scheme allegedly run by Andy Duong, one of the people at the center of the FBI raids that rocked Oakland last week.

According to a 2021 Fair Political Practices Commission document filed in a lawsuit against one of the alleged straw donors, Andy Duong and possibly other members of the Duong family are alleged to have facilitated at least 93 of these fraudulent campaign contributions.

Councilmembers Rebecca Kaplan, Sheng Thao, and Dan Kalb each received thousands of dollars toward their 2016 and 2018 campaigns. Former councilmembers Abel Guilln, Desley Brooks, and Larry Reid received thousands for their election campaigns in 2016 and 2018. And former Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney received thousands to pay her legal bills while she was challenging an unrelated ethics complaint in 2018.

Ngo and Quan were subpoenaed by the Public Ethics Commission in 2019 to provide records related to these political contributions. Both men initially refused to cooperate and were sued by the PEC the next year.

Three years ago, when Public Ethics Commission investigators were locked in litigation with Ngo, Quan, and other suspected straw donors, commission investigators let it be known in court filings that they had information suggesting that Andy Duong was the real owner of the Music Cafe.

California State Assemblymember Ash Kalra, whose district includes part of San Jose, told investigators that the Duong family has held political fundraisers for him in the past. He said that at a 2018 fundraiser, Andy Duong talked to him about Sancha Bar and Music Cafe, giving him the impression that Duong owned the business.

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Before joining The Oaklandside as News Editor, Darwin BondGraham was a freelance investigative reporter covering police and prosecutorial misconduct. He has reported on gun violence for The Guardian and was a staff writer for the East Bay Express. He holds a doctorate in sociology from UC Santa Barbara and was the co-recipient of the George Polk Award for local reporting in 2017. He is also the co-author of The Riders Come Out at Night, a book examining the Oakland Police Department's history of corruption and reform.

Finding the best karaoke songs to belt out is an art form. However, the pressure of selecting the right song to sing can often be overwhelming. Do you want to sing a Whitney Houston ballad? Do you want to get the rest of the room singing with a Journey hit? These are the questions to ask yourself before you take the mic.

Yet, it struggled. The biggest hiccups were in the transition from one MP3 to the next. Tracks would start too soon, leaving a tiny but perceptible gap of silence, or too late, skipping a beat. Sometimes the player would freeze.

I took it a step further and generated my own images, keeping the stills from the music videos, overlaid with lyrics plucked from the associated SRT (SubRip subtitle file). SRTs contain timestamps for each line of the lyrics, which I used to mark the segments.

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I have a question for people who do karaoke often. If a song is too high for you and you decide to sing it lower by a semitone or two, how noticeable is this? The reason I'm asking is because my voice is really low. Also, I'm not good enough to test this yet. I'm hoping someone with experience in karaoke can give me some advice. It's not like you can just transpose a karaoke track.

It is quite normal that you don't have the range of a Pop-singer. Most of these have a high tenor range while many of us are Baritones. You can't sing just one or more semitones lower without transposing the original sound. I can do this by the sound editor of Real-Tek, but there are many other wave editors you can install.

Another way to practice karaoke is to install a midi-karaoke player like Van Basco. You can adjust the speed time, the pitch, you'll have the lyrics shown, you can edit (mute) the accompaniment instrument channels. The disadvantage is the sound that comes from from your sound card. But for practicing it will be sufficiant.

When you DO try, you'll discover just how silly the idea is that you can play the track in one key, sing in a lower one. (Well, I hope you will! If not, you probably want to choose a different hobby to singing.)

But a track CAN be transposed. And the tools for doing it are simple and cheap, even free. For a start, investigate Youtube-DLG, a neat (free) tool for grabbing the audio from a YouTube track. (And for grabbing both audio and video from a lot of other sources too.) Then perhaps Audacity as an audio editor with a pitch-shift function.

If you sing a semitone or two lower than usual but the backing track remains the same as usual, then I have to agree with Tim's answer - everyone notices fast that the song has gone all dissonant and nasty-sounding, including (hopefully) you.

You need to have the backing track played in a way that makes it the one or two semi-tones deeper you need. If you sing in tune with that, it will sound good (maybe except for a small fraction of people who have perfect pitch).

Assuming you are not talking about totally re-arranging the melody, you will have to sing in the key of the song or else it will sound horrible. If your karaoke player can do the transposition for you, set it to play the song in whatever key best fits your range and go to town. If your player/track won't do that, you might try signing an entire octave down. Some songs sound fine that way or even get more interesting.

Entertainment is an important part of the bar experience nowadays. People are looking for more and more wholesome experiences when they go out, especially when coming out of this long period of quarantine. And since you've landed here, I guess you are considering or installing karaoke at your bar, restaurant, or venue, and you want to understand the licensing side of the business. Welcome welcome!

Indeed, music and karaoke licensing in the USA are complicated. And yes, you do need to obtain a license to have karaoke in your bar or venue. Actually, you need to have a license to play background music or host dance nights, live music or DJs at your establishment. In this article, however, I will attempt to give you the 101 of karaoke licensing and make it as simple as possible. Let's get to work!

First things first, karaoke songs are not original recordings of the songs. They are, in fact, reproductions produced by karaoke companies and producers. For a detailed explanation of how karaoke songs are made, feel free to read this informative blog post by Luca Gargano, a musician, veteran KJ and Director of the world renowned Karaoke World Championships.

By law, you cannot play karaoke tracks from Youtube or from your normal karaoke discs for your karaoke nights at the bar or business establishment. Those mentioned media are for your private usage only.

Karaoke hosts and karaoke venues often had a hard time purchasing legal karaoke content as the options are limited in the States due to (again) lengthy and complicated legal issues to produce karaoke tracks. Fortunately, there are now karaoke subscriptions like Singa Business that provide fully-licensed karaoke songs for commercial use. If you are to hire a KJ, make sure that their content is legal, too.

There are 4 big names in the PROs world: Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Society of European Stage Authors and Composers (SESAC), and Global Music Rights (GMR). Each PRO represents different artists, and you can check this information out on their websites. If you are using a karaoke software with a large song selection like Singa, you will need all 4 of them.

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