RARE IMAGE! “Kiss" Gene Simmons Hand Signed 11X17 Color Photo COA

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View RARE IMAGE! “Kiss" Gene Simmons Hand Signed 11X17 Color Photo COA with current marketplace pricing, condition, product images and item details. While he played in these bands, he worked at odd jobs on the side to make more money, including trading used comic books. Simmons attendedSullivan County Community College inLoch Sheldrake, New York. Up for auction  "Kiss" Gene Simmons Hand Signed 11X17 Color Photo. This item is certified authentic by Autograph World and comes with their Letter of Authenticity.  ES-3424E Gene Klein  (born  Chaim Witz  on August 25, 1949), known professionally as  Gene Simmons , is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. Also known by his stage persona  The Demon , he is the bassist and co-lead singer of  Kiss , the rock band he co-founded with lead singer and rhythm guitarist  Paul Stanley  in the early 1970s. Simmons was born as Chaim Witz on August 25, 1949 at  Rambam Hospital  in Haifa, Israel to Jewish immigrants from Hungary. His mother, Florence Klein (née Flóra Kovács), was born in  Jánd  and survived internment in  Nazi concentration camps . She and her brother, Larry Klein, were the only members of the family to survive  the Holocaust . His father, Ferenc "Feri" Yehiel Witz, was a carpenter. Simmons spent his early childhood in  Tirat Carmel  and was raised in a practicing  Jewish  household. He practiced playing his guitar for hours on end. He has said that his family was "dirt poor," scraping by on rationed bread and milk. At age seven, he began to pick wild fruit and sell it on roadsides together with a friend.   At age eight, he emigrated to the United States with his mother and settled in New York City. His father remained in Israel, where he had one other son and three daughters. In the United States, Simmons changed his name to Gene Klein, adopting his mother's maiden name. At age nine, he briefly attended a Jewish religious school,  Yeshiva Torah Vodaas , before transferring to a public school. He later attended  Richmond College   and  Sullivan County Community College , both in New York, and chose a stage name in tribute to the rockabilly singer  Jumpin' Gene Simmons . Before his musical career began, Klein worked a variety of jobs in the city. An "excellent typist", he served as an assistant to an editor of the  fashion magazine   Vogue , and also spent several months as a sixth grade instructor on the  Upper West Side .  The Beatles  had a significant influence on Simmons. "There is no way I'd be doing what I do now if it wasn't for the Beatles. I was watching  The Ed Sullivan Show  and I saw them. Those skinny little boys, kind of androgynous, with long hair like girls. It blew me away that these four boys [from] the middle of nowhere could make that music."    Simmons became involved with his first band, Lynx, then renamed the Missing Links, when he was a teenager. Eventually, he disbanded the band to form the Long Island Sounds, the name being a pun on  Long Island Sound . While he played in these bands, he worked at odd jobs on the side to make more money, including trading used comic books. Simmons attended  Sullivan County Community College  in  Loch Sheldrake , New York. He joined a new band, Bullfrog Bheer, and the band recorded a demo, "Leeta"; this was later included on the Kiss box set. Simmons formed the rock band  Wicked Lester  in the early 1970s with Stanley Eisen (now known as  Paul Stanley ) and recorded one album, which was never released. Dissatisfied with Wicked Lester's sound and look, Simmons and Stanley attempted to fire their band members; they were met with resistance, and they quit Wicked Lester, walking away from their record deal with  Epic Records . They decided to form the "ultimate rock band", and started looking for a drummer. Simmons and Stanley found an ad placed by George Peter John Criscuola (known as  Peter Criss ) who was playing clubs in  Brooklyn  at the time; they joined and started out as a trio. [   During this time, Criss and Simmons also appeared on an unreleased album by Captain Sanity together with members from Criss' previous band Chelsea. Paul Frehley (better known as  Ace Frehley ) responded to an ad they put in  The Village Voice  for a lead guitar player, and soon joined them.  Kiss  released their self-titled debut album in February 1974. Stanley took on the role of lead performer on stage, while Simmons became the driving force behind what became an extensive  Kiss merchandising   franchise . The eye section of his "Demon" makeup with Kiss came from the wing design of comic book character  Black Bolt . In 1983, when Kiss' fame was waning, the members took off their trademark make-up and enjoyed a resurgence in popularity that continued into the 1990s. At this time, Peter Criss, the original drummer, was voted out of the band, and a replacement was sought to fill his vacancy. The new drummer was Paul Charles Caravello, who went by the stage name of  Eric Carr , and played for Kiss from 1980 until his death in 1991. The band hosted its own fan conventions in 1995, and fan feedback about the original Kiss members reunion influenced the highly successful 1996–1997 Alive Worldwide reunion tour. In 1998, the band released  Psycho Circus . Since then, the original line-up has once again dissolved, with  Tommy Thayer  replacing  Ace Frehley  on lead guitar and  Eric Singer  (who performed with Kiss from 1991 through 1996) replacing  Peter Criss  on drums. Category: Entertainment Memorabilia › Autographs-Original › Music › Rock & Pop › Photographs.

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