Eduard Khil
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This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Anatolyevich and the family name is Khil.
Eduard Khil
Эдуард Хиль
Eduard Khil in 2009
Eduard Khil receiving a 4th class Order For Merit to the Fatherland in 2009
Born
Эдуард Анатольевич Хиль (Eduard Anatolyevich Khil)
4 September 1934
Smolensk, Western Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died
4 June 2012 (aged 77)
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Cause of death
Complications from a stroke
Occupation
Singer
Years active
1955?2012
Awards
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Website
http://edhill.narod.ru/ (Russian)
Eduard Anatolyevich Khil (Russian: Эдуа́рд Анато́льевич Хиль; IPA: [ɪdʊˈart ɐnɐ'tolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈxʲilʲ] (often transliterated as Edward Hill); 4 September 1934 ? 4 June 2012) was a Russian baritone singer and a recipient of the People's Artist Award of the Russian SFSR. Khil became known to international audiences in 2010 when a 1976 recording of him singing a non-lexical vocable version of the song "I am very glad, as I'm finally returning back home" (Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой) became an Internet meme, often referred to as "Trololol",[1] or "Trololo" as an onomatopoeia of the song, or the "Russian Rickroll". The song is now commonly associated with Internet trolling.