Eduard Khil (Space Race Didn't End)

Eduard Anatolyevich Khil  (often transliterated as Edward Hill); 4 September 1934 – 4 June 2012) was a Soviet baritone singer and a recipient of the People's Artist Award of the RSFSR. Khil became known to a western audience in 2010 when a 1976 recording of him singing a non-lexical vocable version of the song "I Am Glad, 'Cause I'm Finally Returning Back Home" (Я очень рад, ведь я, наконец, возвращаюсь домой) became an Internet meme, known as "Trololololololololololo" (with varying numbers of "lo"s) or "Trololo .