# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jackie-deshannon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:31:57.695Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jackie-deshannon"
name: "Jackie DeShannon"
slug: "jackie-deshannon"
description: "Jackie DeShannon is an American singer-songwriter, radio broadcaster and actress who has had many hit song credits beginning in the 1960s, as both a singer and composer. She was one of the first female singer-songwriters of the rock and roll period. She is best known as the singer of \"What the World Needs Now Is Love\" and \"Put a Little Love in Your Heart\". She is the writer of \"When You Walk in the Room\" and \"Bette Davis Eyes\", which became hits for The Searchers and Kim Carnes, respectively."
tagline: "American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jackie_DeShannon_2011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1941-08-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.14
  momentum:             14.93943443986652
  historical:           20.44487333333334
  currentAttention:     16.56
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0221176/"
    handle:    "nm0221176"
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    handle:    "0iVed2Qu7dmL0pIYCj1Xw8"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.jackiedeshannon.com/"
sources:
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Jackie DeShannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_DeShannon"
    title: "Jackie DeShannon"
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    title: "Jackie DeShannon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jackie DeShannon"
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    title: "Jackie DeShannon"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump