Arno (singer) explained

Arno Hintjens
Birth Name:Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens
Birth Date:1949 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Ostend, Belgium
Death Place:Brussels, Belgium
Other Names:Arno
Known For:TC Matic
Occupation:Singer, actor

Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens (21 May 1949 – 23 April 2022), better known by his stage name Arno, was a Belgian singer. He was the frontman of TC Matic, one of the best-known Belgian bands of the 1980s. After the band split in 1986 he enjoyed a solo career.

Career

Arno sang in a mixture of English, French, Dutch and his native Ostend-Flemish dialect. For TC Matic, a band which achieved moderate artistic success throughout Europe, he wrote or co-wrote all the band's material, much of it together with guitarist and producer Jean-Marie Aerts. After going solo he released more than a dozen albums during a successful career.[1] In 2002 he received the title "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" (Knight in the Arts and Literature) of the French government. A 2004 biography by Gilles Deleux was translated in Dutch as Een lach en een traan ("A Smile and a Tear").[1]

In the Belgian film Camping Cosmos he played the homosexual lifeguard Harry who does not pay attention to Lolo Ferrari who is incarnating a caricature of Pamela Anderson.[2]

At the beginning of 2020, Arno postponed his upcoming tour after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.[3] Until the end of his life he was performing and recording music. Opex was his last record, recorded while he was very ill. He died from the disease on 23 April 2022, in Brussels, at the age of 72.[4]

Discography

Solo

F reckleface

With Tjens Couter

With TC Matic

As Charles

Filmography

Honours

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Zingen is iets voor de vogeltjes. Provoost. Frank. 10 August 2007. NRC Handelsblad. Dutch. 3 September 2012.
  2. Web site: BUCQUOY FILME LE COSMOS L'HOMME AU CRANE RASE QUI REVAIT DE VACANCES A LA MER. Le Soir. 30 August 1995 . fr. 11 December 2019.
  3. Web site: Death of Belgian singer Arno at the age of 72 .
  4. Web site: Death of Belgian singer Arno at the age of 72 . 23 April 2022 . 27 April 2022 . 27 April 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220427190448/https://havannews.com/2022/04/23/death-of-belgian-singer-arno-at-the-age-of-72/amp/ . dead .
  5. News: Arno, la dérision faite rock'n'roll. Temps. 21 September 2019. 11 December 2019. fr. 1423-3967.
  6. Web site: 20 May 2021. Arno publie "Vivre" ce vendredi: de toute beauté. 21 May 2021. Le Soir Plus. fr.
  7. Web site: De Standaard Arno tot ridder geslagen . 31 January 2002 .
  8. Web site: Arno is voortaan ereburger van Brussel . 22 September 2017 .
  9. Web site: Arno neemt eindelijk ereburgerschap Oostende in ontvangst . May 2018 .
  10. Web site: Arno krijgt Lifetime Achievement Award tijdens de MIA's .
  11. Web site: Lifetime Achievement Award . filmfestivaloostende.be. nl. .
  12. Web site: Arno krijgt ereteken Officier in de Kroonorde uit handen van Brussels minister Sven Gatz . 18 March 2022 .

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