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EDUARD KHIL

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In this Eastern Slavic naming convention, the patronymic is Anatolyevich and the
family name is Khil.
Eduard Khil
Эдуард Анатольевич Хиль
Eduard Khil receiving a 4th class Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" in 2009
Born
Eduard Anatolyevich Khil

(1934-09-04)4 September 1934

Smolensk, Western Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died4 June 2012(2012-06-04) (aged 77)

Saint Petersburg, Russia
Resting placeSmolensky Cemetery, Saint PetersburgOther namesMr.
TrololoOccupationSingerYears active1955–2012Spouse(s)
Zoya Pravdina

(m. 1958)
Children1Awards




Eduard Anatolyevich Khil (Russian: Эдуа́рд Анато́льевич Хиль, IPA: [ɨdʊˈart
ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈxʲilʲ]; 4 September 1934 – 4 June 2012), often anglicized as
Edward Hill, was a Soviet and Russian baritone singer. People's Artist of the
RSFSR (1974).

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" (Russian: Я о́чень рад, ведь я, наконе́ц,
возвраща́юсь домо́й, tr. Ya ochen rad, ved ya, nakonets, vozvrashchajus domoy)
became an Internet meme, often referred to as "Trololol" or "Trololo",[1] as an
onomatopoeia of the song, or as the "Russian Rickroll", and, as such, the song
was commonly associated with Internet trolling. The song's newfound prominence
in Internet culture led him to adopt Mr. Trololo as a stage name.[2]


CONTENTS

 * 1 Early life and education
 * 2 Career
   * 2.1 Song style
 * 3 Personal life
 * 4 Illness and death
 * 5 Legacy
   * 5.1 Internet videos
 * 6 Awards
 * 7 Filmography
 * 8 References
 * 9 External links


EARLY LIFE AND EDUCATION[EDIT]

Khil was born on 4 September 1934 in Smolensk to Anatoly Vasilyevich Khil, a
mechanic, and Yelena Pavlovna Kalugina, an accountant.[3] Life as a child was
hard for Khil. With his family breaking up, he was brought up by his mother.
During the Great Patriotic War (WWII Eastern Front), his kindergarten was bombed
and he was separated from his mother and evacuated to Bekovo, Penza Oblast where
he ended up in a children's home, which lacked basic facilities and needs,
including food. Despite the desperate situation, Khil regularly performed in
front of wounded soldiers in the nearby hospital.[3] He was reunited with his
mother in 1943 when Smolensk was liberated from Nazi Germany and in 1949 moved
to Leningrad, where he enrolled in and then graduated from printing college.[3]
In 1955, Khil enrolled in the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied under
direction of Yevgeny Olkhovsky and Zoya Lodyi. He graduated in 1960.[3] During
his studies, he began performing various lead operatic roles, including Figaro
in The Marriage of Figaro.[3]


CAREER[EDIT]

After graduating he became interested in pop music after attending a Klavdiya
Shulzhenko concert,[3] and started to perform popular music. This led to him
winning several prizes in the next two decades. He won the "All Russian
Competition for Performers" in 1962 and was invited to perform at the "Festival
of Soviet Songs" in 1965.[3] He attained second place in Sopot International
Song Festival in 1965.[4] In 1967, composer Andrey Petrov won the USSR State
Prize for a collection of songs performed mainly by Khil,[3] and in 1968 Khil
was awarded the Honored Artist of the RSFSR. The Order of the Red Banner of
Labour was awarded in 1971,[5] and Russia's most prestigious artist award, the
People's Artist of the RSFSR, was awarded to Khil in 1974.[4] He was so
successful that the public called him the 'Symbol of Leningrad'.[6]


Khil performing at the 65th anniversary Victory Day Parade (Saint Petersburg) in
2010

Between 1977 and 1979, Khil taught solo singing at the Russian State Institute
of Performing Arts.

Khil toured in over 80 countries[3] and lived at Tolstoy House (Russian:
Толсто́вский дом) in Saint Petersburg.[7]

After his singing career faded in the early 1990s, Khil re-entered private life
and worked in a cafe in Paris, singing cabaret. In 1996, upon the suggestion of
his son Dmitry, he became part of Khil and the Sons, a joint project with the
rock band Prepinaki.[8]

For his 75th birthday, Khil was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland",
4th class in 2009 by Russia[3] and, in 2010, performed in Saint Petersburg's
Victory Day Parade.


SONG STYLE[EDIT]

He was the first artist to sing such songs as Woodcutters (Russian: Лесору́бы),
I am so happy to be finally back at home, Moonstone (Russian: Лунный камень) by
Arkady Ostrovsky, A song about a friend (Russian: Пе́сня о дру́ге), And people
go to the sea (Russian: А лю́ди ухо́дят в мо́ре) by Andrey Petrov and Blue
Cities (Russian: Голубы́е города́). Other popular songs performed by Khil
included From where does the homeland begin? (Russian: С чего́ начина́ется
Ро́дина?), How the steamers are seen off (Russian: Как провожа́ют парохо́ды),
Winter (Russian: Зима́), Birch sap (Russian: Берёзовый сок), Alder Catkin
(Russian: Серёжка ольхо́вая), We need one victory (Russian: Нам нужна́ одна́
побе́да), and many others.

Khil's manner of singing and performance was unique and easily recognizable in
Russia (as well as in other countries that were part of the USSR), characterized
by his personal charm and his lyrical baritone, which combined a degree of
optimism and humor.[6]


PERSONAL LIFE[EDIT]

The family name Khil is thought to have come from a Spanish ancestor with the
surname Gil, which is pronounced similarly to hill.[6]

In July 1958, Khil met ballerina Zoya Pravdina, while performing alongside her
at the Leningrad Conservatory. During the summer and fall, they toured together,
and began a romantic relationship. They were married on 1 December 1958, and
stayed married until his death in 2012.[6][9]

The couple had one son, Dmitri, born 2 June 1963, and a grandson named Eduard
(born in 1997) after his grandfather.


ILLNESS AND DEATH[EDIT]

On 8 April 2012, Khil suffered a stroke and was hospitalized with serious brain
injuries at the Mariinsky Hospital in Saint Petersburg, where he fell into a
coma immediately afterward.[10] His condition was later reported as critical,
with now irreversible brain damage. Doctors were initially optimistic about a
partial recovery, but later retracted these statements.[11] He died in the
hospital in Saint Petersburg on 4 June 2012, from complications from the stroke,
aged 77, two days after his son's 49th birthday.[12][13][14]

Among people who offered their condolences to Khil's family was Russia's
President Vladimir Putin. He said about Eduard Khil:[15]

> His name is connected to an era in the history of Russian music. Eduard Khil
> was unique in his extraordinary charm and lyricism, and constant in his
> professionalism, vocal culture and creative taste. Many of the songs he
> performed became part of the golden fund of the Russian stage.


LEGACY[EDIT]


INTERNET VIDEOS[EDIT]

In 2009, a 1976 video of Khil singing a non-lexical vocable version of the song
"I am very glad, as I'm finally returning back home" (Russian: Я о́чень рад,
ведь я, наконе́ц, возвраща́юсь домо́й) was uploaded to YouTube[16] and became
known as "Trololol" or "Trololo".[17] The name "Trololo" is an onomatopoeia of
the distinctive way Khil vocalizes throughout the song. The video quickly went
viral and Khil became known as "Mr. Trololo" or "Trololo Man".[17] The viral
video also has been referred to as the Russian Rickroll.

The song was written by Arkady Ostrovsky. Besides Khil, it was also performed by
Valery Obodzinsky,[18][19] Hungarian singer János Koós,[20] and by Muslim
Magomayev on the Little Blue Light programme in the Soviet Union although
Magomayev's version was sped up slightly causing the song to be played almost a
semi-tone higher.[21]

According to Khil, the Trololo song originally featured lyrics which described a
narrative about a cowboy riding a horse to his farm:[22][23]

> Я скачу по прерии на своем жеребце, мустанге таком-то, а моя любимая Мэри за
> тысячу миль отсюда вяжет для меня чулок
> I'm riding the prairie on my stallion, so-and-so mustang, and my beloved Mary
> is thousand miles away knitting a stocking for me.

The Trololo video first appeared on some sites beginning on 21 February 2010,
the most prominent of those being the "Trololo" website
trololololololololololo.com[24] that helped push the video into popular
awareness, receiving more than 3,000,000 hits in its first month.[25][26] It
gained prominence on 3 March 2010, during a segment on The Colbert Report[27]
after appearing on Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld a handful of times over the previous
couple of weeks.[when?] It was also parodied by actor Christoph Waltz on Jimmy
Kimmel Live![28] as well as Craig Reucassel of The Chaser on the 2010 Australian
TV specials Yes We Canberra!, and in September 2011 on the animated American
television series Family Guy in its tenth-season premiere episode, "Lottery
Fever".[29]

"Trololo"'s popularity in turn re-ignited interest in Khil's singing career
aside from his vocalised performance; for a time, the "Trololo" website[24]
included a petition for Khil to come out of retirement to perform on a world
tour.

> I haven't heard anything about it. It's nice, of course! Thanks for good news!
> There is a backstory about this song. Originally, we had lyrics written for
> this song but they were poor. I mean, they were good, but we couldn't publish
> them at that time. They contained words like these: "I'm riding my stallion on
> a prairie, so-and-so mustang, and my beloved Mary is thousand miles away
> knitting a stocking for me". Of course, we failed to publish it at that time,
> and we, Arkady Ostrovsky and I, decided to make it a vocalisation. But the
> essence remained in the title. The song is very playful – it has no lyrics, so
> we had to make up something so that people would listen to it, and so this was
> an interesting arrangement.
> 
> — Eduard Khil[30], (in Russian)

Arkady Ostrovsky's son, Mikhail, gives another version of the vocalise story:

> Nobody banned its lyrics, but my father just composed the music during the
> period of his disagreement with Lev Oshanin. The latter told him that the
> lyrics are more important in a song and that a composer is nothing without a
> lyricist. So Dad told him during the argument, "Well, I don't need your verses
> at all, I'll manage without them."
> 
> — Mikhail Ostrovsky, Rossiyskaya Gazeta[31], (in Russian)

Khil's son was quoted as saying "He thinks maybe someone is trying to make a
fool of him," and "He keeps asking, 'Where were all these journalists 40 years
ago?'"[17]

Trololo was used by Butlins in a television advertising campaign in the United
Kingdom,[32][33] as well as a United States ad campaign with the Volkswagen
Beetle convertible that debuted during Super Bowl XLVII in 2013.[34] It was also
featured in the 2012 video game Ratchet and Clank: Full Frontal Assault.[35] It
was played briefly in the 2018 film Pacific Rim: Uprising.

On 31 December 2011, Khil performed the Trololo song again live on a 2012 New
Year's Russian holiday television special. Within the first week of January
2012, the new video of Khil performing his new version of the Trololo song had
gone viral on YouTube again, earning over four million hits.[36] Khil died later
that year.

On 4 September 2017, Google displayed an interactive doodle of Khil singing the
Trololo song to celebrate what would have been his 83rd birthday. Although it
was released on the doodle site on 4 September, it was not released until the
next day due to Labor Day in some countries.[37]


AWARDS[EDIT]

 * Winner of Second All-Russian competition of performers (1962)
 * Sopot International Song Festival second prize (1965)
 * Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1968)
 * Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971)
 * People's Artist of the RSFSR (1974)
 * Lenin Komsomol Prize (1976)
 * Order of Friendship of Peoples (1981)
 * Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class (2009)
 * Utyosov Prize


FILMOGRAPHY[EDIT]

 * 1965 – Cheryomushki (Черёмушки) – vocal
 * 1974 – Eduard Khil (documentary, directed by Marina Goldovskaya)
 * 1985 – Golubye goroda (Голубые города, Blue Cities; film-concert, music by
   Andrey Petrov)
 * 2004 – Yatinsotests – club manager


REFERENCES[EDIT]

 1.  ^ "Eduard Khil dies aged 77". 6 June 2012. Archived from the original on 14
     October 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
 2.  ^ "Mr Trololo Singer Eduard Khil Dies Aged 77". Retrieved 5 December 2017.
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     – Yashugin. 1108 STB. with illus. 1982 Moscow: Soviet Encyclopedia 1982
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     (Interview with Khil)". krestianin.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 5 September
     2017.
 7.  ^ Знаменитые жители Толстовского дома (in Russian)
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     Retrieved 4 September 2017.


EXTERNAL LINKS[EDIT]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Eduard Khil.

 * Eduard Khil at IMDb
 * Official website (in Russian)
 * Official YouTube channel (in Russian)
 * "Темы (List of Russian TV reports about "trololo man" with recent interview
   with Eduard Khil)". www.newstube.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original
   on 14 March 2010. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
 * Trololo music video at trololololololololololo.com (via Archive.org)

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