06-04-2012, 02:40 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-04-2012, 02:41 PM by Twin-Skies.)
http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_06_04/76947653/
Quote:The famous Russian crooner Eduard Khil has died in St. Petersburg. He was 77.
The sad news is reported by the RIA-Novosti news agency with reference to an official of the Polenov medical research centre. The singer spent the last few days in the intensive care unit of the centre and died at 1:35 a.m. this Monday, according to the official.
In 2010, Eduard Khil was unexpectedly catapulted to popularity on the Internet due to an instrumental song that he first performed 50 years ago, “I’m glad that I am returning home at last”.
The English-speaking audience specifically enjoyed the refrain “Tro-lo-lo”, so the nickname “Tro-lo-lo” stuck on him. Khil became popular with audiences in the West precisely as Mr. Trololo.
RIAN