Simmons gene

Biography

It passed its childhood in Israel. With 8 years and half, he emigrates with the the United States with his mom (survivor of the Holocauste). He changes name: Eugene Klein diminutive " Gene" because it finds that sounds American than " Chaim" and " klein" the name of young girl of her mother. At the end of the Sixties, it is made call Gene Simmons. It is impassioned for the Comic S of Marvel and creates a Fanzine, and also for films of horror, Lon Chaney is its preferred actor. All this will influence it in the visual search for KIS and in its character of Démon. At 16 years after having seen the Beatles on television, it decides that he will be musician, he learns the guitar, the low one and besides the musical theory as an autodidact, he will buy low identical to that of Paul McCartney. He will play in " Bullfrog Bheer" , " Length Island Sound" , " Coffee" , " Wicked Lester". He will be professor with Harlem, will work with stores Vogue then will meet on several occasions Paul Stanley thanks to a mutual friend. Paul will integrate in 1971 Wicked Lester which will record for the account of a recording company an album ever marketed, then together, they will form KIS in 1972 which will be called first of all " Fuck" , with Peter Criss and Ace Frehley!

The make-up of the musicians of KIS represent their personality. On scene, Gene is the Démon which spits of fire and blood. Besides it will re-record a song of KIS on its album solo of 1978, " see you in your dreams" (rock'n'roll over 1976) because he considered that it had not been correctly polished.

In 2004 it leaves an album solo " Asshole" , two songs Co-are respectively written with Bob Dylan and Frank Zappa.

Apart from the music, Gene is also actor. In the Eighties when KIS is removed, it turns in films like Runaway with Tom Selleck, Never too Young to die with George Lazenby, Mort or sharp with Rutger Hauer, Trick gold treat with Ozzy Osbourne or in Red Surf , Wish you were dead , The declines off western civilization leaves II: the metal years , Strait rock'n'roll city and The new Guy , like in " KIS against the fantômes" , KIS meets the Phamtoms off the park the only film of KIS realized in 1978, but also on television in Miami vice or Hitchhiker . He wrote " KIS and Make-up" and " Sex, Money, KISS" two books on its life in KIS.

It is also at the origin of a cartoon " My dad the rock'n'roll star" , of a show " Mr. Romance" created and diffused on the Oxygen chain, and of two TV-realities " School" rock'n'roll; and " Family Jewels" .

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