Gene Simmons

Musician 

Gene Simmons co-founded KISS 35 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. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, KISS has been America's number one gold record award winning group of all time. Gene Simmons has several ongoing business ventures, including:

SIMMONS ABRAMSON MARKETING, the Worldwide Marketing Branding entity for the INDYCAR SERIES, which includes all 18 races, including the legendary "INDY 500"

GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS Season IV starts filming. Season III currently airing with 34 new episodes!

NGTV.COM has now reached 200 Million video clicks/video views. It is now the #3 ALL TIME biggest site on YouTube. And this, after only 1 year of existence. Gene Simmons is Chairman of the Board and Rich Abramson was co-CEO, both raised the funding and Gene branded the entity NO GOOD TV. The venture is headed by president and founder Kourosh Taj and Jay Vir.

SIMMONS RECORDS, his own record company, with new artist BAG released.

SIMMONS BOOKS, which published his NY Times Best Seller, SEX MONEY KISS and the LA Times Best Seller, LADIES OF THE NIGHT.

GENE SIMMONS ROCK SCHOOL (VH1) his reality show.

GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS (A&E) his other reality show.

MY DAD THE ROCK STAR (Nickelodeon) created/exec prod of smash cartoon.

MR. ROMANCE (Oxygen) created the show.

Gene Simmons was born in Haifa, Israel in 1949 and is the only child of his mother, a German Nazi Concentration Camp survivor. 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 came to America at eight and a half years of age.

Gene 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 also 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.

Gene Simmons has never been married. He has had live-in relationships with Cher and Diana Ross. He has been happily unmarried for 23 years to Shannon Tweed, the mother of his two beautiful children. Gene Simmons lives in Beverly Hills, California.