It is something that happens often. You go out for a spin, and you do not know how you end up in a karaoke and they give you a microphone so you can sing something. You get nervous and spend 3 hours choosing the song you’re going to sing, and when it’s your turn to go on stage you’re like a pudding and your life starts flashing before your eyes.
This can be avoided, and become a brilliant karaoke night that will be remembered among your office mates for years. You just need a bit of pre-preparation and some very simple tips. This is how:
1. The perfect karaoke song
The perfect karaoke song doesn’t exist. But for sure there is a perfect karaoke song for you, for your characteristics as a singer. You should choose two or three songs that are within your vocal range and that you know very well. It is important that you get comfortably to the high notes without shouting and the low ones without forcing the voice. You must learn the lyrics, study every detail of the songs and practice them to make them yours. You must know them by heart; it is horrible when singers keep staring at the screen to read the lyrics, and it will also mislead you.
These two or three songs are the ones that whenever you do not have anything prepared you will sing in a karaoke, so they must be popular songs to make sure they are always available in all the karaoke venues. We recommend practicing them with different instrumental versions because each karaoke cover is different: there are faster, slower ones, with very different instrumentations … You need to be prepared for any situation!
2. Make the song yours
No matter how good your voice is, you will not be able to shine if you have no idea what the lyrics of the song mean. It’s no use putting a smile and jumping on the stage if the lyrics of the song are sad. If you feel what you sing, or understand what you are telling, it will be infinitely easier for you to reach people. Singing is not only having a good voice, it is above all acting and transmitting emotions and feelings.
Understanding the song is also important because the lyrics must fit with you, something will chirp in your performance if you are 48 years old and you are singing that life is unfair because they have asked for your ID to enter the nightclub. 
3. Get rid of your fear
Once you have the song that you are going to sing, you just have to go up on stage and stay looking at the audience and sweating while your white knuckles are tightening … Oh, wait!
You must take away the fears. People go to a karaoke to have fun, not to listen to great singers. In the end not moving will not improve your performance, quite the contrary. You are in front of friends and no one is going to judge you, remember that you are there just to have fun.
Nobody will ask you to dance. But maybe thinking you’re in the shower will help you to start moving. 
Of course, be careful because fear will not be taken away by drinking. With alcohol, you will only make your voice worse and you will have many more chances to make mistakes, so avoid it at all costs before going on stage.
If you follow these simple steps, you will see that the next time you go to a karaoke you will shine with your own light. It does not matter that you do not have a great voice, it is enough that you do not detune, and a good interpretation will make the magic. And above all, show the audience you are having fun, which is the end of what is expected in a karaoke.