The man who launched a thousand memes, and took Youtube by storm some 30 years after performing a wordless song for Russian TV has died. Eduard Khil – the People’s Artist of Russia – who is better known to Western audiences and internet fans the world over as the “Trololo Man,” passed away this morning in St. Petersburg, after being hospitalized at the Polenov Neurosurgical Institute by a stroke in early April.
77 year old Khil was born 4th Septermber 1934, in Smolensk, suffering a difficult childhood that saw his parents split up and him ending up in a children’s home after his kindergarten was bombed and he was separated from his mother during evacuation. Reunited with his mother after the war, he eventually graduated printing college and embarked on a classical music education at the Leningrad Conservatory.
After graduation in 1960, Khil fell in love with pop music, and up to 1974 was awarded...
77 year old Khil was born 4th Septermber 1934, in Smolensk, suffering a difficult childhood that saw his parents split up and him ending up in a children’s home after his kindergarten was bombed and he was separated from his mother during evacuation. Reunited with his mother after the war, he eventually graduated printing college and embarked on a classical music education at the Leningrad Conservatory.
After graduation in 1960, Khil fell in love with pop music, and up to 1974 was awarded...
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