Arno

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 bestknown Belgian bands of the 1980s After the band split in 1986 he enjoyed a solo career Arno sang in a mixture of English French Dutch and his native OstendFlemish dialect For TC Matic a band which achieved moderate artistic success throughout Europe he wrote or cowrote all the bands material much of it together with guitarist and producer JeanMarie Aerts After going solo he released more than a dozen albums during a successful career 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 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 At the beginning of 2020 Arno postponed his upcoming tour after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 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 Source Article Arno singer from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30