For demonic KISS bassist Gene Simmons, breathing fire, spitting blood, wagging his famous tongue and frightening parents is just another day at the office. He was born in Israel and later relocated to Queens, New York, with his mother, the only member of his family who survived the Holocaust. Prior to co-founding KISS with singer/guitarist Paul Stanley in 1973 and catapulting to superstardom, he played in several local bands, taught elementary school in Spanish Harlem and was the assistant to the editor of “Vogue.” Simmons wholeheartedly rocks and rolls all night, but has never partied in his entire life, instead getting high from his own outrageous antics.

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