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Singers & Hosts Wisdom Post how to be a great karaoke singer or host. |
View Poll Results: Why Do You Host Karaoke For A Living? | |||
It's The Funnest Job In The World |
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6 | 17.65% |
I'm A Pro Musician Turned Karaoke Host |
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9 | 26.47% |
It's Better Than A Day Job |
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9 | 26.47% |
I Can't Do Anything Else |
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1 | 2.94% |
I Like The Drunks. |
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4 | 11.76% |
Because I Can |
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10 | 29.41% |
It's A Family Business |
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4 | 11.76% |
I Own A Night Club |
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2 | 5.88% |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 34. You may not vote on this poll |
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Why Do You Host Karaoke For A Living
I entertained professionaly for years sitting on a stool, playing an acoutic guitar ansd singing until I started loosing rooms to karaoke. I added it to my show and it took off. I tried to start some bands but made more money as a single.
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Simply put, made more money at karaoke than doing any band/soloist & running sound for bands.
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The wife hosted for another company for a long time. When her and I got together I was going to work another eight years and retire. I started buying equiptment for one show to make some extra cash doing KJ and DJ weddings. Friend that was in the business decided to retire, called and asked if I would give him $8,000 for his show from the trailer hitch to tailgate. This included 10,000 songs on cdg disks. Enough equiptment to run two shows plus the one I had built. I bought that and started a KJ show the night I bought it. That was seven years ago. Five years later I had to retire as I was doing more work than necessary. That plus my company offered me $35,000 plus a pension and benifits if I would retire then. So I've been full time for two years now. I just finished building my fifth show.
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Am I the only idiot that owns the place?
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Played in a band about 15 years ago, band broke up, we split equipment, I started DJ'ing that weekend, got into karaoke about 10 years after that, everything took off from there. Met G/F who was very adept at electronic stuff, starting hosting with me within a year after we met,
Things got even better. I have a good day job as well, and so does she. I will retire in 4 years because I can afford to.
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I Too played guitar in bands until I got so hungry I needed a real job.
Then I became a karaoke junkie and was at the right place when another kj went to the hospital, so I took over and haven't looked back since. |
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![]() Same thing, Bands seem to have booking issues, bass guitarist falls out of favor, lead guitarist sucks, so make him a rhythm guitarist, but nothing works. Tried the live mike show to no avail. (I was the rhythm guitarist) So I picked up Karaoke as a KJ at an Karaoke bar. Did that stint for five years, but the pay was lousy, so there I was doing my own karaoke show, at first with a partner, then later solo...Still play lousy guitar, but I can run a good karaoke show...
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Your the kind of idiot that I love, you guys (club owners) hire me and I get to pay my bills. By providing karaoke, you save money for sure. Hard to call someone who saves money an idiot.
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thanks for being a part of the poll. Jim ![]()
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I actually started accidently. I was singing karaoke in California at a show, when the KJ asked me if I wanted a part-time job filling in for him whenever he's on vacation. I thought, sure. Around the same time, another KJ asked me the same, and once again, I said sure. Between the two, I had pretty regular gigs going at a good rate of pay (especially since it wasn't my set-up). After I left Cali, I went to Colorado. Once again, at another show, the KJ asked if I wanted a job, and if I did, I should swing by the karaoke store and fill out an application. Once the owner found out I knew every song on DK's original 1-99, and more, she gave me the job. I've moved quite a bit since, but am now in Florida. I usually get asked at shows if I'm a KJ or would like to be one. That's how I usually fall into it. I don't find it - it finds me.
Although I enjoy karaoke, I DO NOT enjoy the drunken morons who come up on stage abusing the mic, taking their clothes off, spouting profanity, or SCREAM into the mic. (There are a lot of really STUPID people out there.) I personally like the audience seat better than the KJ seat. I give you full timers a lot of credit... I just don't like people enough. |
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I was an Ironworker for 38yrs, and when i retired my girlfriend made me do it.
thought i was going to go fishin, Ha gives me something to do, and the money is great. ![]()
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When all else fails become a kj
![]() It really only takes 3 things, a good ear, money, and more money ![]() |
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![]() I too was a professioanl musician/singer. Played guitar and sang. Got tired of the road, tired of " bad " club owners, lazy musicians. Worked harder for less and less money. Took a day job, played in a band weekends, and started doing karaoke during the week. Sure caught the flak from my " fellow " musicians......taking their jobs, you know. I just saw the writing on the wall. Glad I did. I am responsible for myself, and I love music. Do miss playing with a live band now and again. Daryl.
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You ever get your audio outputs working right? I've got another long drive to look forward to tomorrow night if you wanna gimme a call. Should be on the road well into Sunday.
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This past new years eve was my 42nd year in a row to play music of some kind, it has been a blast, but got into karaoke about 9 years ago now, was the best thing I ever done, I work by myself, when I get paid I keep all the money, and dont have to worry about musicians getting drunck or not showing up, but the money has been great, the only thing I worry about now is system failor, and currently trying to get up to speed with back up stuff, should have done this a long time ago, but still miss the band thing, Ive done some guitaroke lately and that was fun.
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Oh yea and by the way dont make the mistake of letting some idiot get your guitar, while you are doing a show, you will go out the back door and shoot yourself if you do.......L
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![]() NEVER AGAIN! ![]() ![]() ![]() Jim
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Mr Jim sir:
I know thisis wayoff the track here, but I down loaded a test version of hoster yesterday, it is really different than Im sued too. What I need to know is can the test version take flies from the external hard drive, I cant get it to do it but there is a lot there I dont know about. and also can anything read kma files other than hoster? kowboys |
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