Roxi looking to reunite households this Christmas

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- June 23, 2021 at 5:42 pm #3052 Reply
  
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  <p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Rob Lewis isn’t just trying to rake in extra cash this Christmas when he urges people to buy his karaoke-cum-quiz service Roxi. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>The music entrepreneur has a goal: he wants to bring families together again at the end of this most difficult of years, tearing children from their iPads and teenagers from their headphones and reuniting households over a shared love of music. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>It’s not hard to believe that the 51-year-old, a serial entrepreneur who managed to get pop legend Kylie Minogue to feature in Roxi’s TV adverts as a favour, could manage such a feat. </p><div class=”artSplitter mol-img-group” style=”style”> <div class=”mol-img”> <div class=”image-wrap”> </div> <noscript> </noscript> </div> <p class=”imageCaption”>Smash hit?
  
  Kylie Minogue with Rob Lewis, founder of karaoke-cum-quiz service Roxi</p></div><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Roxi’s popularity is already taking off – Lewis says its boxes are ‘flying off the shelf’ in the run-up to Christmas. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Customers can either buy the Roxi box to plug into their TV, or download the app on their smart TV.
  
  A subscription to its music services costs £6.99 per month. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>It has a library of 55m songs, 수원셔츠룸 each accompanied by videos, which can be streamed over the internet and played through the TV. But where Roxi really comes into its own for entertainment is that it can also be used as a karaoke machine, an interactive quiz game, and a yoga and meditation instructor. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Roxi investors include the likes of Kylie, Robbie Williams, former U2 manager Paul McGuinness and Formula One legend Ron Dennis.
  
  It has even managed to tempt private equity veteran Guy Hands, whose fingers were burnt during his disastrous takeover of record label EMI, back to the music world. Hands – who Lewis describes as an ‘absolute karaoke nut’ – recently bought a significant stake.</p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>He says: ‘Our ultimate goal when we started Roxi was, can we build a music experience that brings people together again? In too many homes we have got kids sitting alone in their rooms with their headphones on and families not spending enough time together.’ </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>Lewis started Roxi in 2014 with £2.5m of his own money that he’d made through previous entrepreneurial ventures. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>But as the service was rolled out, and 수원가라오케 he needed more money to fund its growth, it wasn’t hard to find willing investors. </p><p class=”mol-para-with-font”>’There are a lot of people who are concerned about how much solitary screen time their kids are getting,’ he explains.
  
  ‘So we picked up quite a lot of investors along the way who were not only excited about the product and the growth opportunities, but they thought it was going to make the world a better place.’ </p><div><div data-track-module=”am-related_carousel^related_carousel” data-track-selector=”.rotator-panels a:not([class*=external])” data-dm-rotator-rotate=”false” data-track-pos=”static” data-dm-rotator-auto-init=”” id=”p-20″ class=”related-carousel with-fb-or-tw money” data-dm-rotator-active-class=”active” data-dm-rotator-page-count=”1.0″ data-dm-social-article-auto-init=”” data-dm-rotator-page-size=”1″> <div class=”rotator bdrcc”> <div class=”rotator-title”> <h2>RELATED ARTICLES</h2> <ul class=”rotator-pages link-xocc”> <li class=”rotator-prev”>Previous
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