| Gene Simmons was born Chaim Witz on august | | | | themed elaborate stage productions. |
| 25, 1949 in Israel. He is the blood-spitting, | | | | Gene Simmons never got married, speaks four |
| fire-breathing, tongue-wagging vocalist and rock | | | | languages including English, Hungarian, Hebrew and |
| bass guitarist of the rock band KISS. Due to his | | | | German while learning Japanese and mandarin. |
| demonic face paint and on stage persona, he is | | | | Besides the band Kiss, Simmons specialty soon |
| also called "the demon" of the hard rock band | | | | changed loyalties and he became a successful |
| which Gene Simmons had co-founded in the early | | | | businessman. Besides sporadically creating music |
| 1970s. | | | | and handling the career of Liza Minelli, Gene |
| Immigrated to the US when he was 8 and | | | | Simmons has been involved in a number of other |
| emotionally scarred, Gene Simmons had a strong | | | | fruitful ventures. Simmons Abramson Marketing is |
| desire for wealth. He had changed his name from | | | | the worldwide branding entity for the INDYCAR |
| Chaim Witz to Eugene Klein, later Gene Klein and | | | | series. He is the chairman of he board of which |
| finally to Gene Simmons in the late 60s. Kiss | | | | has reached 200 million clicks within one year! |
| released its first album in February of 1974 and | | | | Gene had branded the entity No Good TV. |
| Simmons became the driving force behind an | | | | Simmons Comics Group, a venture with IDW Pub |
| extensive Kiss merchandising franchise. Simmons | | | | features comic books like the Zipper, House of |
| has been the creative force behind several | | | | Horrors and Skullduggery. |
| television projects like 'My dad the rock star', 'Mr. | | | | Gene Simmons has a reality show titled Gene |
| Romance', 'Gene Simmons family jewels' and | | | | Simmons Rock School on VH1 besides the |
| appeared in films such as the 1978 TV movie | | | | famous Gene Simmons Family Jewels; he is the |
| 'Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park'. Besides | | | | creator of the smash hit cartoon on Nickelodeon |
| television and movies, Gene Simmons has made | | | | 'My dad the rock star'. Is it any more surprising |
| several television guest appearances, video | | | | then that if you walk into your local post office, |
| appearances, dished out solo albums, produced a | | | | you can also pick up a Gene Simmons US |
| number of albums and in 2002, published a men's | | | | Postage stamp? |
| lifestyle magazine 'Gene Simmons's tongue' which | | | | With a successful music career in the 70s to ever |
| had to be pulled off after 5 issues. | | | | increasing business ventures even three decades |
| The band Kiss and the members became | | | | later; from the tongue sticking, face painted heart |
| superstars after their album KISS Alive released | | | | throb who was a notorious womanizer to the |
| in 1975; for their music as well as the demonic | | | | father of two who dabbles as easily in music as in |
| face paint they wore and Gene Simmons. His | | | | movies, TV reality shows and joint ventures; |
| make up, bass playing, singing, fire spitting and | | | | Gene Simmons remains a legend in himself and |
| sticking his tongue out really far while on stage. | | | | for his avid fans. |
| The band played heavy metal with comic-horror | | | | |