“I wanted people to be inside the music. I mean that’s why we do karaoke,” Martin Glenn told me, at what he said was the result of a dream he’s had for some twenty years: running a karaoke bar in Brooklyn. This past weekend was his first running AUX Karaoke Box, which he opened with his wife Hande, who he says works somewhere in the finance sector.

Before opening AUX, Glenn was an executive in the media world, working stints running branded content studios run by CBS and, most recently, the Future media brand. He had gotten his start as a producer at Fuse, producing interviews with names like Kendrick Lamar, Blink-182 and Nicki Minaj, as well as the network’s online “Crate Diggers” show. Glenn says he’s done with the corporate world. 

“I believe in small business, and they are what make this city and other cities have a heartbeat and character, it feels really good to join those efforts,” says Glenn. “We wanted to do something in our own neighborhood,” he says.