Jim Vallance - Profile

Profile

Jim Vallance is a pure songwriter. Although he has credits as a musician and record producer, they are actually few. His true love is simply songwriting. More than that, he enjoys writing songs with other artists. He is best known as Bryan Adams' songwriting partner from 1978 to 1989. Starting in 1985, Vallance began a consulting style songwriting service for other artists. He would work directly with the artist by assisting them in co-writing songs for their albums. His list of clients are the "Who's Who" of the recording industry and across many music genres: pop, poprock, rock, hard rock, heavy metal and country.

Ironically, Vallance lives in almost total anonymity outside the music industry. The role of a pure songwriter is low profile to the music buying public. Many do not recognize his name despite having many of his songs in their collections. Only true music enthusiasts who read the album credits recognize his name. Even at that, most know little about him without researching his background as he does few interviews. Even in his home country, most Canadians do not recognize his name despite Vallance winning the music industry Juno award for Songwriter of the Year 4 times.

Vallance is also deeply involved with the music industry member associations. Performing Rights Organization of Canada Limited (PROCAN), Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), FACTOR and Songwriters Association of Canada (SAC).