Kuramoto’s cameo with Queen [AUDIO]
KITV’s Jill Kuramoto, third from left, stopped by Senor Frog’s Waikiki last week. (Star-Bulletin file)
Very few – if any – Hawaii residents can lay claim to having a cameo on a Queen record.
KITV weekend anchor Jill Kuramoto, however, is one of those people. And she had no clue her voice appears on the new Queen + Paul Rodgers single, “Surf’s Up … School’s Out.”
The Star-Bulletin’s Erika Engle broke the story on Sunday in her column, where she got a label representative to admit Kuramoto’s voice was lifted without her permission.
“Hearst-Argyle’s attorneys are looking into (the situation),” Kuramoto said last week Tuesday when I spoke to her at Senor Frog’s Waikiki. “One of our cameramen at our station bought the album and was listening to it, and then he let everyone else in the newsroom listen to it.
“And then I heard it, and I thought, ‘Oh yeah, that does sound like me.’”
According to Kuramoto, the sample in question was taken from a Dec. 1, 2007 newscast on KITV. While Erika’s column mentions Queen’s people found said clip of the newscast on YouTube, she couldn’t find it during an online search.
“I’m trying to think how they got it,” said Kuromoto last week. “Maybe one of them was on vacation out here and they heard it then?”
You can listen to Kuramoto’s cameo after the break.
Queen + Paul Rodgers - "Surf's Up … School's Out": 
