Edward Gil, Russian Crooner
Baritone From Russia In Funny Music Videos
Written by OddCulture on February 20th, 2010 in Odd Video.
Tags: funny video, Music, Russia
Russian Crooner Edward Hill, from the USSR! Funny video included!
Note: We don’t speak Russian so we are going with Google translations. That means that when we typed in the Cyrillic version of his name we got Edward Gil, although we have also seen the translation “Edward Hill” bandied about.
Anyway, Edward Gil was born September 4 1934 in Smolensk. He is known for songs like “Lumberjacks” and “The Moonstone”, “What begins Rodina”, “As escort ships”,” Blue City “,” How nice to be a general “,”In the forest on the edge”.
Gil is said to be one of the symbols of Leningrad. We bet!
“I am very glad, because I’m finally back home”
“Such a miracle”
Since 1997, Ed has been involved with his son in a joint project with the rock group Prepinaki. Check it out – it’s like retro rock, comrade.
Gil and Sons – A man of the house came
Hat tip to Q-Burns Abstract Message for turning us on to Ed!
Update
As some readers have told us, Edward’s last name is more like “Hill”, not Gill. Also, we have some more information courtesy of Justin Smith:
The man singing is Edward Hill, also known as Eduard Khil…
“I Am So Happy to Finally Be Back Home,” is an Ostrovskii composition, and it is meant to be sung in the vokaliz style, that is to say sung, but without words…. vokaliz was a well established genre, one that seems close in certain respects to pantomime.
Play all the vids at the same time and you’ll hear “The Passion according to Mathew”!
Actually, his name really is Edward Hill. The Russian letter “X” is pronounced “KH”, so…it’s not Gil.
There are some in Russia (and Ukraine) who pronounce that letter as a gutteral “G.” But, trust me. It’s Hill. Google is stupid. lol
Smartypants. Out.
Thanks, Miss Smartypants!! We appreciate the info!
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Good article man Thanks