Profile
Gene Simmons
Songwriter + Musician + Singer
Male
Born
Aug 25, 1949
Age
63
Hometown
Tirat HaCarmel
Genres
Hard rock + Heavy...
Instruments
Guitar + Spector ...
Performed With
Kiss (Band) + Kis...
Gene Simmons is an Israeli-American rock bassist, singer-songwriter, entrepreneur and actor. Known as "The Demon", he is the bassist/co-vocalist of Kiss, a hard rock band he co-founded in the early 1970s. Kiss has sold over 100 million albums worldwide.… Read More
Photos
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Romance
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Georgeann Walsh WardDated 1971 - 1974
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Gayle O`ConnorFling
Family
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Gene Simmons
Age 63
parents
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Feri WitzFather
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Flóra KleinMother
children
News + Updates
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Mexico: Kiss Legends To Open Restaurant In San Jose Del CaboChicago Times - Mar 05, 2013
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Ll Plays It Cool Night Before GrammysHuffington Post - Feb 10, 2013
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Andy Campbell: How To Date A Porn StarThe Huffington Post - Jan 18, 2013
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Bert Montgomery: Faith, Self Discovery And Christian Music: An Interview With Ex Altar Boy Ric AlbaHuffington Post - Jan 10, 2013
Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1949
Birth
Chaim Weitz (later Gene Simmons) was born at the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel in 1949.
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TWENTIES
THIRTIES
1980
30 Years Old
The drummer that did so, was Paul Charles Caravello, who went by the stage name of Eric Carr, and played for KISS from 1980 until his early death at the age of 41 in 1991.
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FORTIES
1999
49 Years Old
During an interview in 1999, Simmons was asked about the source and significance of Kiss' stage makeup and personas: A part of their career was without makeup due to an executive decision involving Kiss manager Jerry Jaffe (head of A&R,Polygram) and other important people in the music business, however this decision did turn out as a failure, and put their "personality" back on.
FIFTIES
2003
53 Years Old
Simmons was a supporter of the foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration. He supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, writing on his website: "I'm ashamed to be surrounded by people calling themselves liberal who are, in my opinion, spitting on the graves of brave American soldiers who gave their life to fight a war that wasn't theirs in a country they've never been to... simply to liberate the people therein".
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2006
56 Years Old
During the 2006 Lebanon War between Israel and Lebanon, Simmons sent a televised message of support (in both English and Hebrew) to an Israeli soldier seriously wounded in fighting in Lebanon, calling him his "hero."
LATE ADULTHOOD
2010
60 Years Old
In 2010, Simmons said he regretted voting for Barack Obama and criticized the 2009 health care reforms. Following Obama's 2011 Mideast speech, in which the President called on Israel and the Palestinians to negotiate a settlement "based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps," Simmons told CNBC that Obama was gravely misguided. "If you have never been to the moon, you can't issue policy about the moon.
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During his visit to Israel in 2011, he stated that the artists refusing to perform in Israel for political reasons are "stupid," referring to artists who canceled planned concerts in Israel.
In an April 2012 interview, Simmons endorsed Republican Mitt Romney for President, stating as well that "America should be in business and it should be run by a businessman."
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