Nationality Belgian Role Musical Artist Known for TC Matic Name Arnold Hintjens | Occupation MusicianActor Other names Arno | |
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Full Name Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens Born 21 May 1949 (age 74) ( 1949-05-21 ) Ostend, Belgium Music groups TC Matic (1980 – 1986), Charles Et Les Lulus Movies Prejudice, Camping Cosmos, Turtle Sitting, Komma, So There Albums Future Vintage, Brussld, Live in Brussels, Jus de box, French Bazaar | ||
Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens (born 21 May 1949), better known by his stage name Arno, is a Belgian artist born in Oostende. He was the frontman of TC Matic, one of the best-known Belgian bands of the 1980s. Since the band split in 1986 he has had a solo career.
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Arno sings in a mixture of English, French, Dutch and his Ostend 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.