Hey there! I love going out to do karaoke! 
karaoke" is also used by recording engineers to refer to an instrumental version of a recording (i.e., to a version of a recording with no vocal track).
No way. I had no idea. I thought it was all just about singing off-key in a bar! Haha.
Many artists, amateur and professional, perform in situations where a full band/orchestra is either logistically or financially impractical, so they use a "karaoke" 
I bet its been around a long time, in that case.
In the late 1960s and into the 1970s,