Article: Anyone can be a singing star, just step into one of these bars.(Spotlight On Karaoke)

WHEN Gemini, Starr and Jewel got up to belt out their favorite hits on karaoke night at Ricky Gene's bar in Lomita, everyone took note.

The women, performers of another sort at a nearby strip club, were serious singers--maybe too serious.

"I had one throw the mike down on the floor and storm off the stage," said Tony DeFazio, owner of Starlight Karaoke, a company that provides karaoke jockeys to area bars and restaurants. DeFazio had tried taking her picture and she came back later, explaining that under her belief system "you could not capture her on film while she was 'glowing,' dancing or having fun."

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