Now I am not a very good singer, in fact I suck at singing but that doesn’t stop me from visiting the videoke bars when I am in the Philippines. In an article published on the blog Visit Philippine Islands, a Filipina named Sheila Blackburn wrote an article called Videoke in the Philippines.

In this article Sheila says that “Videoke is a very popular form of entertainment in the Philippines.” Very popular form of entertainment? I say it is the national pastime of the Philippines. Everywhere you go there is a videoke bar or most people have one in their homes. I think if you didn’t need a TV, which you don’t for Karaoke machines, Filipinos would have more of these machines than TV sets.

In my opinion I believe that is the reason the world is now becoming aware of Filipino talent. Some of these youngsters were raised with videoke machines in their homes and they practice every day as well as perform in front of crowds at the local videoke bars. Like the saying goes “Practice makes perfect.” Either way videoke is so much fun and it’s good clean fun.

The most fun and interesting place I saw videoke was on a stage in the middle of a swimming pool in one of the local Hot Spring resorts in Laguna. Everybody had fun that particular night and all the guests participated. It wouldn’t have done much good for them to stay in their rooms and sleep because the sound of music from the pool would not have let them sleep anyway.

I suggest you visit Sheila’s article and see how the Philippines has embraced videoke and plan to visit the videoke bar on your next visit.