“He was a very engaging personality, very warm when he trusted you,” says musician and producer John Blaute to our editors. “And first and foremost, he was an artist 24 hours a day. I think you can only call someone an artist if he or she creates his or her own universe. Arno had created an Arno world of his own that he controlled, but the doors were always open. He liked to let the audience into his universe, he was born to share his world on stage.”
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