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Gene Simmons is an Israeli soloist, guitarist and an extremely renowned entrepreneur. He was born in Israel on August 25, 1949 and shifted to New York together with his mother in 1957. He altered his given name from Chaim Witz to Geme Simmons in 1960. His father, Feri Witz, equally Jewish, had left the family. Subsequent to arriving at the United states, he took the name Eugene Klein, and later on Gene Klein. During the late-sixties, he yet again changed his name, this time conclusively to Gene Simmons. He is the blood-spitting, fire, tongue-wagging songster and rock bass guitarist of the rock band KISS. Due to his demonic face paint and on stage personality, he is also called "the demon" of the hard rock group which Gene Simmons had co-founded in the early 1970s.

He attended Sullivan County Community School in Loch Sheldrake, New York. Ever since his childhood, Simmons had a strong desire for fame and success. In actual fact, his involvement with music commenced in the initial years of his life. When he was a teen, Simmons commenced his number one group by the name 'Lynx', that he disbanded to form another - Long Island Sounds. One of his bands created a demo, 'Leeta', which was afterward released on the 'Kiss' box set in its demo version. In the years to come he modified a lot of bands to determine his worth including: The Long Islands" and even labored in various fields to get several additional money. He equally teamed up with Paul Stanley and recorded his number one album, but regrettably the album failed to hit the markets.

Kiss released its first album in February of 1974 and Simmons became the driving force behind an intensive Kiss merchandising franchise. Simmons has been the creative force behind several tv campaigns such as 'My dad the rock star', 'Mr. Romance', 'Gene Simmons family jewels' and appeared in films like the 1978 TV movie 'Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park'. Apart from television and movies, Gene Simmons has made several tv guest appearances, video appearances, dished out solo albums, created a number of albums and in 2002, published a men's lifestyle newspaper 'Gene Simmons's tongue' which had to be pulled off following 5 issues.

Kiss was the most favored joint venture accomplished by Gene Simmons and over 1,000,000 copies of the very first album were sold all around the globe. Countrywide live performances of Kiss established it as one enormous money generating machine. Gene had always a commercial mind and he used it intelligently and launched Kiss stores all over United states of america where one could obtain exclusive merchandise of the Kiss band. The stores included masks, T-shirts, magazines and even added Kiss coffins for ultimate Kiss fans at a worth of $4700.

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