Gene Simmons, an American musician, who is also known by his stage persona "The Demon", was the bassist and co-lead singer of the hard rock band KISS. Simmons co-founded this rock band with Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss in the early 1970s. He was born to Florence and Ferenc on August 25, 1949, in Haifa, Israel. His mother was a Holocaust survivor and when he was eight years old, he moved to New York City with his mother. He later changed his name to Eugene Klein to sound more... Read this story
