He joined a new band, Bullfrog Bheer, and the band recorded a demo, "Leeta" this was later included on the Kiss box set. Simmons attended Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake, New York. While he played in these bands, he worked at odd jobs on the side to make more money, including trading used comic books. Eventually, he disbanded the band to form the Long Island Sounds, the name being a pun on Long Island Sound. Simmons became involved with his first band, Lynx, then renamed the Missing Links, when he was a teenager. It blew me away that these four boys the middle of nowhere could make that music." Career Kiss Those skinny little boys, kind of androgynous, with long hair like girls. I was watching The Ed Sullivan Show and I saw them. "There is no way I'd be doing what I do now if it wasn't for the Beatles. The Beatles had a significant influence on Simmons. A proficient typist, he served as an assistant to an editor of Vogue, and spent several months as a sixth grade instructor on the Upper West Side. Before his musical career began, Klein worked a variety of jobs in the city. He practiced playing his guitar for hours on end. 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. When he was nine, he briefly attended a Jewish religious school, Yeshiva Torah Vodaas, before transferring to a public school. In the United States, Simmons changed his name to Gene Klein, adopting his mother's maiden name. His father remained in Israel, where he has another son and three daughters. Īged eight, he and his mother immigrated to the United States, settling in New York City. At the age of seven, he began to pick wild fruit and sell it on roadsides together with a friend. He has said that his family was "dirt poor", scraping by on rationed bread and milk. Simmons spent his early childhood in Tirat Carmel and was raised in a practicing Jewish household. Simmons' father, Ferenc "Feri" Yehiel Witz (1925–2002), was a carpenter. She and her brother, Larry Klein, were the only members of the family to survive the Holocaust. His mother, Florence Klein (1925–2018 née Flóra Kovács), was born in Jánd and survived internment in Nazi concentration camps. Simmons was born as Chaim Witz on August 25, 1949, at Rambam Hospital in Haifa, Israel, to Jewish immigrants from Hungary.
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