The world’s deadliest karaoke song: More than a dozen people have been MURDERED while singing THIS 1960s American classic

Karaoke is a harmless activity that many like to do when they’re out with their friends – but did you know that releasing a certain song can put you in danger?

That’s right, it’s said that in the past decade, more than a dozen people have been murdered in the Philippines while singing the same extremely popular song: Frank Sinatra’s My Way.

In a strange phenomenon known as the My Way Killings, the 1969 American classic is now being hailed by many as the ‘world’s deadliest karaoke song’ – after countless people were killed while performing the song.

One of the victims was brutally murdered for singing out of tune, while another was stabbed for refusing to share the microphone. But the one thing they, and many others, had in common when they were murdered was that they played the wildly popular ballad.

Due to a strange phenomenon known as the My Way Killings, the 1969 classic is now being hailed by many as the “world’s deadliest karaoke song.” Sinatra is seen in 1966

When My Way was first released in the late ’60s, it quickly became one of Sinatra’s most popular songs – so it’s no surprise that it has become a favorite for people to take to karaoke bars.

But for many residents of the Philippines, it unfortunately became the last thing they would ever hear, as they tragically died while singing it.

In 2007, a 29-year-old man named Romy Baligula was shot dead in a karaoke bar in San Mateo during his rendition of the song.

It was reported by CBS at the time security guard Robilito Ortega, 43, became enraged because Romy delivered the notes all wrong – so he pulled out a .38 caliber pistol and fired it, hitting him in the chest.

In 2018, a man named Jose Bosmion, Jr., 61, was murdered by his neighbor, Rolando Cañeso, 28, in Manila while singing My Way at his birthday party.

According to a local news channelThings turned violent after Jose took Rolando’s microphone and started tampering with it, refusing to give it back.

The two got into a fight, and Rolando pulled out a knife and viciously stabbed Jose.

And these are just two of many incidents related to the song Esquire reported in 2019 that the number of people who died while singing the song had risen to more than 12.

The violence has become so intense that many karaoke bar owners in the Asian country have removed the song from their repertoire. Above is a main street in Manila

When My Way was first released in the late ’60s, it quickly became one of Sinatra’s most popular songs – so it’s no surprise that it has become a favorite for people to take to karaoke bars. Sinatra performing in 1949

The violence has become so intense that many karaoke bar owners in the Asian country have removed the song from their repertoire.

The government even passed a bill in 2018 that introduced a 10 p.m. curfew for karaoke bars. However, it is unclear whether this has to do with the My Way Killings.

Many locals are terrified of ever singing the song in public. A Filipino man named Rodolfo Gregorio tells the New York Times in 2010: ‘I liked My Way, but after all the effort I stopped singing it. You could get killed.”

“The problem with My Way is that everyone knows it and everyone has an opinion,” he added.

Butch Albarracin, a man who owns a singing school in the country, theorized that the reason the song has caused so much tension is because the lyrics are very “arrogant.”

‘The lyrics evoke feelings of pride and arrogance in the singer, as if you are someone while you are actually no one. It covers up your failures. That’s why it leads to fights,” he said.

‘And now the end has come. And so I stand before that final curtain. My friend, let me make it clear. I will plead my case, of which I am sure,” the text read.

‘I have lived a life that is full. I’ve driven every highway. And more, much more, I did it, I did it my way.’

A “pop culture expert” and University of the Philippines student named Roland B. Tolentino said the killings stemmed from the fact that the country as a whole is a “very violent society.”

“Karaoke only activates what already exists here when certain social rules are broken,” he said.