| Grant Lawrence | |
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Lawrence at the 2007 NXNE festival |
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| Background information | |
| Born | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupations | media personality, musician, writer |
| Instruments | vocalist |
| Years active | 1989–present |
| Associated acts | The Smugglers |
Grant Lawrence (born c. 1973) is a veteran Canadian radio personality and writer based in Vancouver. He is a host on CBC Radio 3, a Sirius Satellite Radio channel which emphasizes new independent Canadian music, and is also the vocalist for the indie rock group The Smugglers.
In addition to his regular shifts on Radio 3 itself, Lawrence was the host of Radio 3's Saturday night program on the CBC Radio 2 network until March 17, 2007, when that program was discontinued. He is also regular host of the service's weekly podcast, which is the most widely downloaded Canadian podcast on the Internet as of 2006. Spin magazine dubbed it the best podcast in Canada.[1]
Lawrence began his association with the CBC in the 1990s, filing stories about life on tour with the Smugglers for David Wisdom's show Nightlines. When Nightlines ended in 1997, Wisdom and Leora Kornfeld, the former host of Realtime, went on to host the new series RadioSonic. Lawrence initially worked for the show as a researcher, and later became a producer. He became host of RadioSonic in 2001, after Wisdom and Kornfeld left the program.
Lawrence co-founded and currently plays ice hockey for the Vancouver Flying Vees, an amateur hockey team staffed largely by Canadian musicians.[2]
He is married to singer-songwriter Jill Barber.[3]
Lawrence published his first book Adventures in Solitude, a memoir of his visits to the Desolation Sound area of British Columbia, in 2010.[4]