Radio personality Raymond Desmarteau has over thirty years of experience behind the microphone, both across Canada and abroad. After a career as a singer-songwriter and the release of two albums—one of them in France—he went on to work as a host at CIEL-FM and as the morning show host for Radio-Canada in Vancouver, then in Toronto. He was also heard on the airwaves of RFC in Lahr, Germany, before becoming its programming director. At Radio Canada International (RCI), he served as director and producer for the 1995 referendum night coverage, as well as the national elections of 1997 and 2000. As head of partnerships, he supplied English and French reports to some 60 English-language radio stations and over 160 French-language stations—both associative and community-based—in the United States, Europe, Africa, and Oceania. Still at RCI, he also worked as lead anchor and host of the daily program TamTam Canada for seven years, and later hosted for several seasons at Radio Classique Montréal. With Éditions GID, he published two novels—Des jardins de jachère (2014) and La mémoire des saules (2021)—as well as Chroniques du bout de ma rue (2019), a short story collection.
