The Outrageous Life of Legendary KISS Rockstar Gene Simmons

As a child, he grew up in Tirat Carmel during Israel’s early years, in conditions he later described as poor and difficult. Food was limited, life was modest, and survival was not an abstract idea in his household.

Those early memories gave him a lasting sense of hunger, not only for food, but for security, recognition, and control over his future. The poverty of his childhood would later stand in sharp contrast to the business empire he built. First, though, he had to leave everything familiar behind.