1. Eduard Anatolyevich Khil was born on September 4,1934, in Smolensk, to Anatoly Vasilyevich Khil and Yelena Pavlovna Kalugina.
20 Facts About Eduard Khil
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Eduard Khil 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.
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In 1955, Eduard Khil enrolled in the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied under direction of Yevgeny Olkhovsky and Zoya Lodyi.
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Eduard Khil won the "All Russian Competition for Performers" in 1962 and was invited to perform at the "Festival of Soviet Songs" in 1965.
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Eduard Khil attained second place in Sopot International Song Festival in 1965.
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Eduard Khil was so successful that the public called him the 'Symbol of Leningrad'.
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Between 1977 and 1979, Eduard Khil taught solo singing at the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts.
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Eduard Khil toured in over 80 countries and lived at Tolstoy House in Saint Petersburg.
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Eduard Khil was the first artist to sing such songs as Woodcutters, I am so happy to be finally back at home, Moonstone by Arkady Ostrovsky, A song about a friend, And people go to the sea by Andrey Petrov and Blue Cities.
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The family name Eduard Khil is thought to have come from a Spanish ancestor with the surname Gil, which is pronounced similarly to hill.
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In July 1958, Eduard Khil met ballerina Zoya Pravdina, while performing alongside her at the Leningrad Conservatory.
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The couple had one son, Dmitri, born 2 June 1963, and a grandson named Eduard Khil was born on in 1997 and after his grandfather.
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On 8 April 2012, Eduard 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.
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Eduard Khil's condition was later reported as critical, with now irreversible brain damage.
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Eduard Khil died in the hospital in Saint Petersburg on 4 June 2012, from complications from the stroke, aged 77.
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Eduard Khil's name is connected to an era in the history of Russian music.
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Eduard Khil was unique in his extraordinary charm and lyricism, and constant in his professionalism, vocal culture and creative taste.
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The video quickly went viral and Eduard Khil became known as "Mr Trololo" or "Trololo Man".
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On 31 December 2011, Eduard Khil performed the Trololo song again live on a 2012 New Year's Russian holiday television special.
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On 4 September 2017, Google displayed an interactive doodle of Eduard Khil singing the Trololo song to celebrate what would have been his 83rd birthday.