Biography
Arnie Skiffle Joe
Real name: Arne Trandal
Effective period / Period of releases: 1958 - 1987
Norwegian singer, musician, composer and author, born Arne Trandal on 14 May 1925, Norway - died 14 December 2016, Oslo, Norway.He started out as a singer/songwriter in the '50s and has since become a cult hero, (in)famous for his risque lyrics and a stage show where he sang and played guitar while riding a unicycle.
After he fell off his "one-legged horse" during a holiday in Thailand, he had to quit the onstage acrobatics.
But Arnie did play weekly with his band at the pub Tranen in Oslo, until they closed in 2012.