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| Birth Name(s) : Gene Simmons |
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Full Gene Simmons Biography
Simmons became involved with his first band, Lynx, then renamed The Missing Links, when he was a teenager. Eventually he disbanded The Missing Links to form the Long Island Sounds. While he played in these bands, he kept up odd jobs on the side to make more money, including making fanzines and buying used comic books. Simmons then attended Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake, New York. He then joined a new band Bullfrog Beer, and the band made a demo, "Leeta"; this song was eventually released on the Kiss box set in demo form.
Simmons currently lives in Beverly Hills, California with longtime partner and former Playboy Playmate Shannon Tweed (they are not married). They have two children: a son, Nicholas (born 22 January 1989), and a daughter, Sophie (born 7 July 1992).
Simmons has been the creative force behind such television projects such as:
- My Dad The Rock Star, a cartoon by the Canadian animation company Nelvana, about the mild mannered son of a Gene Simmons-like rock star.
- Mr. Romance, a show created and hosted by Simmons on the Oxygen cable television channel.
- Rock School, a reality show in which Gene tries to make a rock band out of a group of children trained in classical music in the first season, and in the second, a group of kids from a 'tough' comprehensive school. Rock School was aired on Channel 4 in the UK, Channel Ten in Australia, TVNZ's TV2 in New Zealand, VH-1 in the United States and Latin America,Nelonen in Finland, TV4 in Sweden and Much Music in Canada.
- Gene Simmons Family Jewels, another reality show for A&E which debuted on August 7, 2006. The premise is basically the same as The Osbournes, with cameras following Simmons and his family around to document their home life. It has been released on DVD in two editions.Gene Simmons in a scene from Rock School.
Simmons was also a candidate on The Celebrity Apprentice, with Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation being the charity he was playing for. He was fired in the third episode, which aired on January 17, 2008.
In 2007, he appeared alongside other celebrities, as well as regular people, in the music video for Rockstar by Nickelback.
In 2002, Simmons launched "Gene Simmons Tongue", a men's lifestyle magazine. The magazine lasted five issues before being discontinued. |
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