Eduard Anatolyevich Khil (often anglicized as Edward Hill; 4 September 1934 – 4 June 2012) was a Soviet-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” (Russian: tr. Ya ochen rad, ved ya, nakonets, vozvrashchajus domoy) became an Internet meme, often referred to as “Trololol”, or “Trololo” as an onomatopoeia of the song, or the “Russian Rickroll”. The song was commonly associated with Internet trolling.
