# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jim-vallance
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:41:07.633Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jim-vallance"
name: "Jim Vallance"
slug: "jim-vallance"
description: "James Douglas Vallance is a Canadian songwriter, arranger and producer. He is best known as the songwriting partner of Canadian musician Bryan Adams. Vallance began his professional career as the original drummer and main songwriter for Canadian rock band Prism under the pseudonym Rodney Higgs. In addition to Adams, Vallance has written songs for many famous international artists such as Bonnie Raitt, Aerosmith, Carly Simon, Rod Stewart, Roger Daltrey, Tina Turner, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Ted Nugent, Europe, Kiss, Scorpions, Anne Murray, and Joe Cocker. His most recognizable songs are \"What About Love\" (Heart), \"Spaceship Superstar\" (Prism), \"Run to You\", \"Cuts Like a Knife\", \"Heaven\", \"Summer of '69\", \"Now and Forever \", and \"Edge of a Dream\". He also co-wrote \"Tears Are Not Enough\" for Northern Lights for Africa, an ensemble of Canadian recording artists in support of the 1985 African famine relief. He has won the Canadian music industry Juno award for Composer of the Year four times. Vallance is a Member of the Order of Canada."
tagline: "Canadian record producer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1952-05-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.38
  momentum:             0.8333333333333333
  historical:           12.160056
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1138477/"
    handle:    "nm1138477"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.jimvallance.com"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "چيم ڤالانس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jim Vallance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Vallance"
    title: "Jim Vallance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Vallance"
    title: "Jim Vallance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Vallance"
    title: "Jim Vallance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Vallance"
    title: "Jim Vallance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9"
    title: "ジム・ヴァランス"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Vallance"
    title: "Jim Vallance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Vallance"
    title: "Jim Vallance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%BC"
    title: "Валланс, Джим"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Vallance"
    title: "Jim Vallance"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Vallance"
    title: "Jim Vallance"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ec409b83-2981-4fba-b3a1-d830714b7e67"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump