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Gene Simmons is an Israeli singer, guitarist and an exceptionally celebrated entrepreneur. He was born in Israel on August 25, 1949 and moved to New York together with his mother in 1957. He modified his given name from Chaim Witz to Geme Simmons in 1960. His dad, Feri Witz, equally Jewish, had left the family. After arriving in U.S., he carried the name Eugene Klein, and afterward Gene Klein. In the late-1960s, he yet again modified his name, this time finally to Gene Simmons. He is the blood-spitting, fire, tongue-wagging vocalist and rock bass guitarist of the rock group KISS. As a result of his demonic face paint and on stage character, he is equally known as "the demon" of the hard rock band that Gene Simmons had co-founded in the early Seventies.

He went to Sullivan County Community School in Loch Sheldrake, New York. Ever since his childhood, Simmons had a sturdy urge for fame and riches. Actually, his involvement with music began in the early years of his life. When he was a teen, Simmons commenced his first group by the name 'Lynx', which he disbanded to make another - Long Island Sounds. One of his bands made a demo, 'Leeta', which was later on released on the 'Kiss' box set in its demo version. In the years to come he changed a lot of bands to determine his worth including: The Long Islands" and even worked in numerous fields to earn some extra earnings. He also teamed up with Paul Stanley and recorded his first album, but sorry to say the album did not hit the markets.

Kiss released its number one album in February of 1974 and Simmons became the driving force behind an in depth Kiss merchandising franchise. Simmons has been the artistic force behind several tv initiatives like 'My dad the rock star', 'Mr. Romance', 'Gene Simmons family jewels' and appeared in films such as the 1978 TV movie 'Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park'. Besides television and movies, Gene Simmons has created several television guest appearances, video appearances, dished out solo albums, produced a number of albums and in 2002, printed a men's lifestyle magazine 'Gene Simmons's tongue' which had to be pulled off after 5 issues.

Kiss was the most popular joint venture accomplished by Gene Simmons and over a million copies of the very first album were sold all around the globe. Nationwide live performances of Kiss established it as one big money generating machine. Gene had always a commercial mind and he used it prudently and launched Kiss stores all over United states of america where one could acquire exclusive merchandise of the Kiss group. The stores integrated masks, T-shirts, magazines and even included Kiss coffins for ultimate Kiss fans at a value of $4700.