TOKYO--In a figure-hugging sparkly dress, Val Monique tears around the stage, whipping up the crowd as she channels her inner Tina Turner and belts out "Proud Mary." Monique is Panama's representative in the Karaoke World Championships, one of 40 amateur warblers selected from 30,000 entrants for the competition, which is being held this year for the first time in its spiritual home of Japan. Accountants, teachers and economists from as far afield as the Faroe Islands, Guatemala, Brazil and the Philippines battled it out for the prestigious title of the world's best karaoke singer in the competition run since 2003. And like everyone around the world who has ever grabbed the ...
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