According to reports, the guard complained that the young man's rendition was off-key, and when the victim refused to stop singing, the guard pulled out a. On May 29, 2007, a 29-year-old karaoke singer of My Way at a bar in San Mateo, Rizal, was shot dead as he sang the tune, allegedly by the bar's security guard, who was arrested after the incident. In the decade up to 2010, about a half-dozen incidents occurred in the Philippines in connection with strenuous complaints over the singing of the song, prompting Filipino newspapers to name the phenomenon the ' 'My Way' killings'. Opinions differ over whether the possible connection is due to the coincidence that the song was simply frequently sung amid the nation's karaoke bars where violence is common or to the aggressive lyrics of the song itself.
Another source estimates at least 12 between 20. A New York Times article estimates the number of killings to be about six up to 2010. The My Way killings are a social phenomenon in the Philippines, referring to a number of fatal disputes which arose due to the singing of the song 'My Way', popularised by Frank Sinatra, in karaoke bars.
