Paul Stanley is a famous American hard rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and painter
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Paul Stanley is a famous American hard rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and painter
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He first tied the knot with Pamela Brown. The couple was blessed with son, Evan Shane Stanley. However, the unison did not last long and the two filed for a divorce in 2001.
In 2005, he married longtime girlfriend Erin Sutton at The Ritz-Carlton, Huntington in Pasadena, California. They have been blessed with three children, a son and two daughters.
This famous hard rock guitarist suffers from microtia, a deformity of the pinna (outer ear) since a child. He is deaf in his right ear
Not much is known about Paul Stanley’s childhood or early life except for the fact that he was born as Stanley Harvey Eisen on January 20, 1952 in Queens, New York.
He attended The High School of Music & Art in New York City, graduating from the same in 1970.
He showed a deep fascination for music from an early age. He was so involved with his musical aspirations that by the time he aged to the teens, he had already mastered playing guitar and writing the lyrics for his songs.
He initiated his career as a member of the local band, Rainbow. Furthermore, he was also a member of Uncle Joe and Post War Baby Boom.
His career took off a rather unpredictable start. A chanced meeting of him with yet another aspiring young musician Gene Simmons led him to form a group, titled, ‘Wicked Lester’. The duo formed a number of other musical groups as well, but none did much to help them take off their career commercially.
The failure of the group led the duo to revise and revamp their idea as to how the group should seem like. They then placed ads for a drummer and a guitarist at the New York newspapers, which led to the recruitment of guitarist Ace Frehley and drummer Peter Criss.
With the enrolment of Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, he along with Simmons renamed the band as ‘Kiss’. The group released their self-titled debut album in February 1974. The album was pretty successful making it up to the gold status in the US and Canada charts.
The spectacular success of the debut album led the group to come up with their second album in the same year titled, ‘Hotter Than Hell’. This album too, like its predecessor, hit the perfect chord with the audience achieved gold status in the US and Canada charts.
In 2006, he was inducted in the Long Island Music Hall of Fame.
In 2008, he won the ‘Showman Of The Year’ award of the Classic Rock Awards.
In 2009, he received the Classic Gold Telly Award for his concert film ‘One Live Kiss’.
He was presented with the Sound Partners Lifetime Achievement Award from the House Research Institute