After his pancreatic cancer, Arno forced to rest cancels his concerts until winter

Belgian singer Arno, recovering from medical treatment for his cancer, is forced to cancel all his concerts which were scheduled for next fall and winter, we learned from his press officer, Filip on Friday. De Groote.

After being hospitalized in the spring in Brussels to treat her pancreatic cancer,

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This means that public appearances and concerts planned in Belgium, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands in the fall and winter are canceled, he adds.

The 72-year-old artist, known for his broken voice à la Tom Waits mixed with a Flemish accent, his exuberance and his excesses, announced in February 2020 that he was suffering from pancreatic cancer.

He was then in full promotion of an album (

, released in September 2019) and had to interrupt his tour to undergo an operation.

The coronavirus pandemic and the impossibility of holding concerts then postponed several times throughout 2020 the prospect of returning to the stage, even if he was able to record a new album (

, with pianist Sofiane Pamart, released late May 2021).

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The hope of regaining the stage continued to be showered this year, with the third wave of the pandemic, coupled with the artist being hospitalized again in May for treatment with chemotherapy.

Now Arno has been released from the hospital but the effects of the treatment require this long period of rest at his home in Brussels.

The dates postponed several times are therefore now canceled, Filip De Groote told AFP, speaking of

to allow ticket holders to be reimbursed.

Originally from Ostend, a Flemish coastal town to which he has remained very attached and which he evokes in his songs, Arno began his career with the rock group TC Matic in the 1980s, notably with the song

(

). It was solo that he then revealed himself to a wider audience, thanks to songs like

or his cover of Les

by another Belgian, Adamo.