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 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" (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 CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Arno was a Belgian singer and actor who fronted the influential 1980s band TC Matic before embarking on a prolific solo career and making memorable film appearances.
He is known for his gravelly vocal delivery, eclectic musical style mixing French, English, and Flemish, and acting roles in European films like Camping Cosmos and I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster.
He was named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2002 for his contributions to arts and literature.
