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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.

Arno Hintjens
Hintjens in 2005
Born	Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens (1949-05-21)21 May 1949 Ostend, Belgium
Died	23 April 2022(2022-04-23) (aged 72) Brussels, Belgium
Other names	Arno
Occupation	Singer, actor
Known for	TC Matic

Career

Arno sang in a mixture of English, French, Dutch and his native Ostend-Flemish dialect.[1] 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 hé 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

• Arno (album) (1986)
• Charlatan (1988)
• Ratata (1990)
• Tracks From The Story (1992)
• Idiots Savants (1993)
• Water (1994) with the Subrovnicks
• À La Française (1995)
• Live À La Française (1997)
• Give Me The Gift (1997)
• European Cow Boy (1999)
• À Poil Commercial (1999)
• Le Best Of (2000)
• Arno Charles Ernest (2002)
• Longbox (2002)
• French Bazaar (2004)
• Live in Brussels (2005)
• Jus De Box (2007)
• Covers Cocktail (2008)
• Brussld (2010)
• Future Vintage (2012)
• Le coffret essentiel (2014)
• Human Incognito (2016)*'
• Santeboutique (2019)[5]
• Vivre (2021)[6]
• Opex (2022) (His last album was posthumously released)

Freckleface

• Freckleface (1972)

With Tjens Couter

• Who Cares (1975)
• Plat Du Jour (1978)
• Singles 1975-1980 (1978)
• If It Blows (Let It Blow) (CD compilation, 1991)

With TC Matic

• TC Matic (1981)
• L'Apache (1982)
• Choco (1983)
• Yé Yé (1985)
• The Best Of (Ça Vient, Ça Vient, Change Pas Demain) (1986)
• Compil Complet! (2000)
• TC Matic - The Essential (2003)

As Charles

• Charles Et Les Lulus (1991) with Roland Vancampenhout, Adriano Cominotto and Piet Jorens.
• Charles and the White Trash European Blues Connection (1998)

Filmography

• 1987: Skin (by Guido Henderickx) as Chico
• 1996: Camping Cosmos (by Jan Bucquoy) as Himself
• 1997: Alors voilà (by Michel Piccoli) as Himself
• 1999: Surveiller les tortues (Short, by Inès Rabadan) as André
• 2006: Komma (by Martine Doyen) as Peter De Wit / Lars Ericsson
• 2007: Ex Drummer (by Koen Mortier)
• 2007: Parade nuptiale (by Emma Perret)
• 2007: I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (by Samuel Benchetrit) as Himself
• 2009: Petites vacances à Knokke-le-Zoute (TV Movie, by Yves Matthey) as Maurice
• 2014: Le goût des myrtilles (by Thomas De Thier) as Eric Dessart
• 2015: Prejudice (by Antoine Cuypers) as Alain (final film role)

Honours

• Knight in the French Order of Arts and Letters: 2002[7]
• Grand Prix du Disque for French Song (Charles Ernest): 2002
• Honorary citizen of Brussels: 2017[8]
• Honorary citizen of Ostend: 2018[9]
• Music Industry Awards Lifetime Achievement Award: 2019[10]
• Ostend Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award: 2022[11]
• Officer in the Belgian Order of the Crown: 2022[12]

References

External links

• Arno at IMDb
• Official website
• Arno discography at Discogs
• Review of 'Brussld' (English)

На других языках

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[de] Arno (Sänger)

Arno, eigentlich Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens, (* 21. Mai 1949 in Ostende; † 23. April 2022 in Brüssel[1]) war ein belgischer Sänger.

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- [en] Arno (singer)

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[es] Arno (cantante)

Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens (Ostende, 21 de mayo de 1949 – Bruselas, 23 de abril de 2022),[1] conocido principalmente por su nombre artístico Arno, fue un artista belga nacido en Ostende. Fue el líder de TC Matic, una de las bandas de Bélgica más famosas de la década de 1980. Tras la separación de la banda en 1986, empezó a trabajar en solitario.

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