Career
He was discovered and managed by Guy Cloutier. In 1974, René Simard was awarded the Grand Prix by Frank Sinatra at the annual Tokyo Music Festival. Afterwards, Simard had a short-lived career as a Japanese idol singer in Japan.
Back to his native country, he hosted his own Canadian Broadcasting Company Television series from 1977 to 1979, produced in Vancouver by Alan Thicke and featuring various international celebrity guests.
Since 2006, he hosts the reality television series L"heure de gloire on Radio-Canada. In 2004, Cloutier was convicted of sexually assaulting Nathalie when she was a child.
On November 18, 2005, Simard held a press conference in which he denied these charges. Simard has been married to television hostess Marie-Josée Taillefer since 1987.