Arno (singer)


Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens, 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.
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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. In 2002 he received the title "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" of the French government. A 2004 biography by Gilles Deleux was translated in Dutch as Een lach en een traan.
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.

Discography

Solo

  • Arno
  • Charlatan
  • Ratata
  • Tracks From The Story
  • Idiots Savants
  • Water with the Subrovnicks
  • À La Française
  • Live À La Française
  • Give Me The Gift
  • European Cow Boy
  • À Poil Commercial
  • Le Best Of
  • Arno Charles Ernest
  • Longbox
  • French Bazaar
  • Live in Brussels
  • Jus De Box
  • Covers Cocktail
  • Brussld
  • Future Vintage
  • Le coffret essentiel
  • Human Incognito *'
  • Santeboutique
  • Vivre
  • ''Opex''

Freckleface

  • ''Freckleface''

With Tjens Couter

  • Who Cares
  • Plat Du Jour
  • Singles 1975-1980
  • ''If It Blows ''

With TC Matic

  • TC Matic
  • L'Apache
  • Choco
  • Yé Yé
  • The Best Of
  • Compil Complet!
  • ''TC Matic - The Essential''

As Charles

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

Filmography

  • 1987: Skin as Chico
  • 1996: Camping Cosmos as Himself
  • 1997: Alors voilà as Himself
  • 1999: Surveiller les tortues as André
  • 2006: Komma as Peter De Wit / Lars Ericsson
  • 2007: Ex Drummer
  • 2007: Parade nuptiale
  • 2007: I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster as Himself
  • 2009: Petites vacances à Knokke-le-Zoute as Maurice
  • 2014: Le goût des myrtilles as Eric Dessart
  • 2015: Prejudice as Alain

Honours