A look at the nature of inspiration, via Gene Simmons moving to the US at eight, discovering rock music, comics and movies, ...

Gene Simmons was born Chaim Witz in Haifa, Israel, in 1949, but was raised in Queens, New York. He co-founded Kiss in the early ’70s and has since become the group’s most visible and most ...

Gene Simmons of Kiss (credit ... After being freed, Flora moved to Israel and married, and Simmons spent his childhood in Tirat Carmel, where his father was a carpenter. Flora left her husband ...

Despite sharing the same surname, they are not related. Gene Simmons, whose real name is Chaim Witz, was born in Haifa, ...