Paul Stanley
Paul Stanley (born January 20, 1952 in Bronx , New York , actually Stanley Bert Eisen ) is an American guitarist , singer and record producer . He is a rhythm guitarist , singer and founding member of the rock band Kiss .
Life
Childhood and youth
Stanley's mother Eva was born in Berlin in 1923, his father comes from Poland. In 1933 his grandparents and mother left everything behind and fled from Berlin to Amsterdam. "That saved their lives. The escape continued and eventually they ended up in New York, where I was born." Stanley has a sister two years older than him. He attended Music & Art high school and earned the money for guitar lessons by driving cabs in New York. He would have liked to become an anthropologist , but the desire to make music was greater. Due to a malformation of the ear ( microtia ° III), Stanley has been deaf in his right ear since birth; he can only hear in this ear via bone conduction .
Since Wicked Lester
At the beginning of the 1970s Stanley founded the rock band Wicked Lester together with Eugene Klein, who later called himself Gene Simmons . With this band he recorded an album that never came out.
After Stanley and Simmons could not establish themselves with their vision of a glamorous rock'n'roll band, they broke up Wicked Lester and looked for colleagues for a band that should set standards in terms of theatricality in the rock business. They brought the drummer George Criscuola (later Peter Criss ) on board and called themselves Kiss from then on . After a while they advertised the position of lead guitarist, and so Paul Daniel Frehley (later Ace Frehley ) found his way into the band. In February 1974 Kiss released their first album.
In 1978 his first solo album Paul Stanley was released , which he also produced. A year later he worked for the first time outside of Kiss as a producer and was responsible for the debut album of New England .
Stanley was married to Pamela Bowen from 1992 to 2001 and has a son, Evan Shane (born June 6, 1994). On November 19, 2005, Paul Stanley married his partner, attorney Erin Sutton, at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Pasadena , California . Their son Colin Michael and their daughter Sarah Brianna on January 28, 2009 were born on September 6, 2006. In February 2011, Stanley and his wife announced that they were expecting children again. The child, Emily Grace, was born on August 9, 2011.
Like Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley took on various projects alongside Kiss and made his stage debut as "Phantom of the Opera", although he only played the role in Toronto.
It is also worth mentioning that Paul is the only band member of Kiss besides Gene who has been with the band continuously since the band was founded.
In October 2006 his second solo album Live to Win was released . The title track of this album was used in the Southpark episode Make love not Warcraft .
In April 2008 the duet I Will Be With You by Paul Stanley and Sarah Brightman from Brightman's new album Symphony was released.
In October 2008 his solo DVD One Live Kiss came out on the market; a live concert with his own band recorded on November 6, 2006 at the House Of Blues in Chicago . Songs from his solo albums as well as old Kiss songs were played.
Stanley, who is now having problems with his voice, underwent vocal cord surgery in October 2011. In 2014 Stanley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the other founding members of the band Kiss . On April 8 of the same year his autobiography Behind the Mask was published (in the original: Face the Music: A Life Exposed ).
Stanley was also a co-owner of the LA Kiss arena football team , which started its first season in 2014. After the 2016 season, the team was disbanded.
Paul Stanley made a cameo appearance with Gene Simmons in the US comedy Why Him? in which they sing the song I Was Made for Lovin 'You in one scene .
Discography (solo)
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Albums
- 1978: Paul Stanley
- 2006: Live to Win
Singles
- 1978: Hold Me, Touch Me
Web links
- Paul Stanley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official Homepage of Paul Stanley (Engl.)
- "Kiss on a farewell tour - we were always gentlemen" , interview and photo series, one day , January 10, 2018
literature
- Paul Stanley: Behind the Mask (The Autobiography) . Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2014, ISBN 978-3-85445-455-7 (Original edition: Face The Music )
- Ken Sharp with Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons: The Story of KISS (Our Early Years) . Hannibal Verlag, Höfen 2014, ISBN 978-3-85445-443-4 (Original edition: Nothin 'To Lose: The Making Of KISS (1972–1975) )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alex Gernandt (interviewer), Kiss on a farewell tour - we have always been gentlemen . Spiegel , January 10, 2018, accessed January 10, 2018 .
- ^ Paul Stanley: Face the Music: A Life Exposed. HarperCollins Publishers, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-06-211404-4 .
- ^ Paul Stanley Opens Up About Voice Troubles . In: contactmusic.com , November 11, 2011.
- ↑ Arena Football League, KISS Bring Pro Football Back to Los Angeles . (No longer available online.) Arena Football League , August 15, 2013, archived from the original on February 9, 2017 ; Retrieved November 27, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| SURNAME | Stanley, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eisen, Stanley Bert (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American guitarist, singer, and record producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 20, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bronx , USA |