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Bio
Gene Simmons co-founded KISS 38
years ago. KISS continues to be the juggernaut of
licensing/merchandising, with over 2,500 licenses. KISS has broken BOX
OFFICE RECORDS set by the Beatles and Elvis and continues stronger than
ever, and has been AMERICA’S NUMBER ONE GOLD RECORD AWARD WINNING GROUP
of all time. (RIAA).
SIMMONS BOOKS, which published
his NY Times Best Seller, SEX MONEY KISS, the LA Times Best Seller,
LADIES OF THE NIGHT and the upcoming new book, GENE SIMMONS ART OF WAR.
Published his own magazine, GENE
SIMMONS TONGUE (Sterling/McFadden).
Gene Simmons was born in Haifa,
Israel in 1949, and is the only child of his mother, a German Nazi
Concentration Camp survivor. He came to America at eight and a half
years of age.
He has always attributed his
ethics, morals and drive to his mother's notion's about life. "Every day
above ground, is a good day," his mother is apt to say. Every day above
ground, indeed.
He graduated State University (NYSU)
and City University (CUNY) and got a Bachelor of Education degree. He
taught sixth grade in Spanish Harlem in New York City.
He then became the Assistant to
the Director of the Puerto Rican InterAgency Council, a government
funded research and demonstration project.
He worked at Glamour and then at
Vogue, as the assistant to the editor, Kate Lloyd.
Gene speaks a few languages:
English, Hungarian, Hebrew, German and is getting better at Japanese
every day. At present, he is becoming fascinated by Mandarin Chinese and
has every intention of becoming fluent in it.
After 28 years of Happily
Unmarried Bliss, Gene and Shannon Tweed got married on October 1, 2011
at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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