insert_link Classic Hits Gene Simmons Out on Tour This Fall KISS is a rarity, in that they chose the road less traveled in rock. Here were grown men wearing makeup, breathing fire on stage, spewing blood, and initiating fireworks during songs – in 1970!!! KISS began with the birth of Chaim Witz in Israel in 1949, and the dreams of a better life in America. Gene Simmons (as we know him) and his mother immigrated to Queens, NY. Gene rocked […] todayJuly 14, 2017