Gene Simmons was born in Haifa, Israel in 1949, and is the only child of his mother, a German Nazi Concentration Camp survivor.

Gene has always attributed his ethics, morals and drive to his mother's notion's about life. "Every day above ground, is a good day," his mother is apt to say. Every day above ground, indeed. Simmons came to America at 8 and a half years of age. He graduated State University (NYSU) and City University (CUNY) and got a Bachelor of Education degree. Boy then became the Assistant to the Director of the Puerto Rican InterAgency Council, a government funded research and demonstration project.

Gene worked at Glamour and then at Vogue, as the assistant to the editor, Kate Lloyd.

This boy speaks a few languages: English, Hungarian, Hebrew, German and is getting better at Japanese every day. At present, he is becoming fascinated by Mandarin Chinese and has every intention of becoming fluent in it.

Simmons has had live in relationships with Cher and Diana Ross. Gene has been happily unmarried for 25 years to Shannon Tweed, the mother of his two beautiful children.