In recent times it’s rare to come across a social networking website with a genuine unique selling point so when I discovered redkaroke i was understandably refreshed.

RedKaroke lets its users sing, record and share karoke songs. It has a surprisingly large collection of music for users to sing along to and each has the lyrics that flash up on screen as your singing.

I signed up with the intent of recording a song and embedding it here but after numerous failed attempts (nothing at all was wrong with the system, just my singing) I decided to embed a song from one of the sites top users.

This embed is just an audio track but users also have the option of recording a video to go along with their singing.

The two co-founders (and brothers) Miguel and Richard Ferreira had the original idea. They both have years of experience in the Spanish internet industry, having worked for Yahoo! Spain, Terra.es, and Ya.com. They saw the increasing popularity of music shows, and worked through the technical difficulties, ultimately coming up with the Spanish site, RedKaraoke.es which proved to be very successful. This is the international version which launched recently.

I’d love to see some indiestartups.com readers trying to do some karoke. If you feel brave post links to your attempts in the comments.