Singer Arno died on Saturday April 23 at the age of 72 from pancreatic cancer.
Belgian singing star Arno died on Saturday, reports The evening. He was 72 years old. The artist had been fighting since 2019 against pancreatic cancer. “He will be missed by all of us, his family, his friends and his musicians. He will always be with us thanks to the music that kept him alive until the end”wrote his manager in a press release. Arno had discontinued his treatment for the disease in early 2022. In July 2021, he canceled his concerts as part of his tour for health reasons, after being admitted to the Brussels University Hospital. On the advice of his doctors, he took “pause” in his career.
Arno had made meaningful remarks a few weeks before his death. “In the state where I am… the past no longer exists”he had launched, fatalistic, on the airwaves of France Inter Wednesday March 23. He had added: “I had a wonderful life, I traveled all over the world thanks to music, it gave me pleasure in life. I enjoyed life. I take this happiness with me. Thank you life! But now, in my state… Today is the most important”.
Arno believed in medicine to live
In the face of illness, Arno had found his therapy: music. “Music has always saved my life. The concerts are important for me, as much as for the public“, had declared to the same daily newspaper The evening the Belgian artist, in an interview published in February 2020. Fplagued by illness, he kept hope and focused on medicine. “Yesterday is dead, tomorrow does not exist, I am alive today. I want to be positive and enjoy life, taking into account the situation“, he had launched full of hope. Until the end, Arno will have believed it.
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Recording of the program ‘Vivement Dimanche’ in Paris on November 7, 2012.
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The singer had to cancel his concerts.
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The singer Arno and Michel Drucker – Recording of the show “Vivement Dimanche” in Paris on December 3, 2014. The show will be broadcast on December 7, 2014. Main guest La Bande à Renaud.
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Recording of the show “Vivement Dimanche” in Paris on December 3, 2014. The show will be broadcast on December 7, 2014.
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Recording of the program “Vivement Dimanche” in Paris on December 3, 2014.
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Singer Arno at the 27th Victoires de la Musique ceremony in Paris, March 3, 2012.
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The singer Arno in concert at the Trianon in Paris on February 11, 2020.
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Belgian singer and actor Arno Hintjens (Charles Ernest Hintjens) at the 30th International Francophone Film Festival in Namur with the opening film “Prejudice” Belgium, October 2, 2015.