Very weakened by two years of the fight against pancreas cancer, the Belgian singer died on Saturday in Brussels at the age of 72, after a five-decades career.
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In Capital Neon Red Letters, the word “living” was nice to be suspended above the musicians, the spectators of the last concerts given by Arno, from 6 to 26 February, in the chamber of the old Belgium, to Brussels, and the Ostend casino, pressed a real farewell tour. Very weakened by two years of fighting pancreatic cancer, the Flemish hoarse from the song, rock and the European blues clung to the scene as a last buoy. “The concerts, it’s my life … For forty years. I am very happy to be able to do it again,” he confided to the world on February 7th.
If he then found the strength and time to finish a last album, Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens – said Arno -, died in Brussels, on April 23, at the age of 72 years.
His hard and tender humanity, his trilingualism (French, English, Dutch) of a dedicated candor dedicated to the celebration of freedom and the senses, as to confidences – between moving franchise and humor adicical -, had done from this Truculate rocker a figure as much appreciated in Belgium in France, where he had been done knight in the order of the arts and letters, in 2002.
In the last two years, the destiny had had a heavy hand with Arno, who, in February 2020, officially announced that he would have to fight against cancer. While the results of chemotherapy seemed encouraging, the singer left for five months at the hospital, a few days before his 72 e birthday. “2021 was the worst year of my life, he recognized. For the first time, I almost not played music and all my concerts were canceled.”
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As if it were not enough, the disease had carried away at the same time several intimates. “My friend, my brother, the guitarist Paul Cut [1949-2021], with whom I started music and founded my first groups [Freckleface, Tjens Cut, T.C. Matic], and my mentor, Hubert de Cleer.” Professor From Dutch in Ostend, the latter had initiated the Blues his 15-year-old student, lending him from the ‘Hopkins or Sonny Boy Williamson albums. “I became addicted,” remembered Arno, who, later, will find the teacher, exiled to Kathmandu, for a more esoteric learning.
Born on May 21, 1949 in Ostend, Arno Hintjens had other occasions of joining rock. “It was in Ostend at the end of the 1950s, entrusted the son of aviator mechanic into the world in 1994. My best boyfriend had two big sisters of 16 and 17 years old who had a pickup. I asked them to Listening to one of their 45-tours, they put me one night with you, from Elvis Presley. I felt something inexplicable in my body. “
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