Arno (singer)
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Arno (born May 21, 1949 in Ostend ; actually Arno Hintjens ) is a Belgian singer and musician.
Life
Arno began his musical career in Ostend (Belgium) in the early 1970s . He was successively a member of the formations Freckle Face , Tjens Couter and TC Matic . He has been active as a solo artist since 1986. In addition to his own compositions, mainly in French and English, and partly in Flemish , he also recorded numerous French chansons . He also composed the music for numerous films. Because of his rough voice and musical relationship, he was also known as the "Belgian Tom Waits".
In 2007, Arno and Alain Bashung played in the film J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster by Samuel Benchetrit in the 3rd story, once successful singers who wander through the province and meet by chance. Over coffee they talk about the world and their life and try to hide their loss of meaning from each other.
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 BE F
|
 BE W
|
 FR
|
 CH
|
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| 1995 | À la française |
BE F16 (11 weeks) BE F |
BE W24 (12 weeks) BE W |
- | - | |
| 1997 | En concert (à la française) |
BE F45 (2 weeks) BE F |
BE W32 (4 weeks) BE W |
- | - |
Live album
|
| 1998 | Charles & the White Trash European Blues Connection (as Charles & the White Trash European Blues Connection) |
BE F19 (5 weeks) BE F |
- | - | - |
Blues project (with Geoffrey Burton, Alan Gevaert and Herman Cambré)
|
| 1999 | Le European Cowboy |
BE F10 (8 weeks) BE F |
BE W26 (4 weeks) BE W |
- | - | |
| 1999 | À poil commercial |
BE F36 (2 weeks) BE F |
BE W27 (2 weeks) BE W |
FR71 (1 week) FR |
- | |
| 2000 | Le best of |
BE F4th  × 3
(28 weeks)BE F |
BE W6 (15 weeks) BE W |
- | - |
in Flanders only in the charts in 2003
|
| 2002 | Arno, Charles Ernest |
BE F2  (32 weeks)BE F |
BE W3 (17 weeks) BE W |
FR26 (14 weeks) FR |
CH90 (2 weeks) CH |
|
| 2003 | Arno |
BE F45 (3 weeks) BE F |
- | - | - |
Debut album, recorded in 1986
|
| 2004 | French Bazaar |
BE F1 (20 weeks)BE F |
BE W4 (23 weeks) BE W |
FR16 (23 weeks) FR |
CH60 (3 weeks) CH |
|
| 2005 | Live in Brussels |
BE F17 (15 weeks) BE F |
BE W13 (10 weeks) BE W |
FR109 (7 weeks) FR |
- |
Live album
|
| 2007 | Jus de box |
BE F1 (36 weeks)BE F |
BE W3 (33 weeks) BE W |
FR22 (20 weeks) FR |
CH48 (4 weeks) CH |
|
| 2008 | Covers cocktail |
BE F55 (11 weeks) BE F |
BE W30 (11 weeks) BE W |
FR46 (9 weeks) FR |
- | |
| 2009 | Best of |
BE F14 (25 weeks) BE F |
BE W34 (41 weeks) BE W |
- | - |
3-CD
|
| 2010 | BrussId |
BE F2 (20 weeks)BE F |
BE W6 (22 weeks) BE W |
FR31 (18 weeks) FR |
CH62 (2 weeks) CH |
|
| 2012 | Future vintage |
BE F4 (25 weeks) BE F |
BE W6 (29 weeks) BE W |
FR35 (11 weeks) FR |
CH98 (1 week) CH |
|
| 2014 | Le coffret essential |
BE F47 (6 weeks) BE F |
BE W91 (5 weeks) BE W |
- | - |
compilation
|
| 2016 | Human Incognito |
BE F6 (36 weeks) BE F |
BE W5 (42 weeks) BE W |
FR29 (11 weeks) FR |
CH53 (3 weeks) CH |
|
| 2019 | Santeboutique |
BE F2 (17 weeks) BE F |
BE W4 (18 weeks) BE W |
FR38 (7 weeks) FR |
CH76 (1 week) CH |
|
More albums
- Charlatan (1988)
- Ratata (1990)
- Charles et les Lulus (1991)
- Tracks from the Story (1992)
- Idiots Savants (1993)
- Arno & the Dubrovniks Water (1994)
- En concert (1997)
- Give Me the Gift (1997)
- Essential Volume II (2005)
- All 40 goed (2010)
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
BE F
|
BE W
|
FR
|
CH
|
|||
| 1986 | Forget the cold sweat |
BE F22 (4 weeks) BE F |
- | - | - | |
| 1993 | Vive ma liverté |
BE F48 (3 weeks) BE F |
- | - | - | |
| 1999 | Zwart geel rouge ( De III Belgen ) |
BE F38 (4 weeks) BE F |
- | - | - |
with Will Tura and Rob Vanoudenhoven
|
| 2007 | Mourir à plusiers |
BE F33 (7 weeks) BE F |
- | - | - | |
| 2010 | Brussels |
BE F29 (1 week) BE F |
- | - | - | |
| 2013 | Vous les femmes | - | - |
FR114 (4 weeks) FR |
- | |
| 2016 | Dance like a goose | - | - |
FR175 (1 week) FR |
- | |
gray hatching : no chart data available for this year
More singles
- De mots (with Julien Doré , 2009)
- Show of Life (2012)
- Please Exist (2016)
- Je veux vivre (2016)
- Ostend bonsoir (2019)
- Santeboutique (2019)
- Tjip tjip c'est fini (2019)
Web links
- Homepage of Arno
- Arno at Allmusic (English)
- Literature by and about Arno in the catalog of the German National Library
- Arno in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arno |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hintjens, Arno (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian singer and musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East End |