Gene Simmons's Birth Card: The Ace of Clubs

In the record

Gene Simmons (born Chaim Witz; Hebrew: חיים ויץ [χaˈim ˈvits]; August 25, 1949), also known by his stage persona "the Demon", is an Israeli and American musician and songwriter. The birth-card coordinate for August 25 is the Ace of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 2014 Performers with Kiss induction.

Rock Hall record

• 2014 Performers — inducted member of Kiss

The Ace of Clubs coordinate

Gene Simmons's birthday maps to the Ace of Clubs (The Creative Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Gene Simmons. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a new idea while it is still usable, and you let it meet the world unfinished.

Live Ace of Clubs meaning page

Gene Simmons in the public record

He was the bassist and co-lead singer of the hard rock band Kiss, which he co-founded with Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss in 1973. Simmons, alongside Stanley, remained a constant member of the band until their dissolution in 2023. Simmons is also known for his long tongue and for his reality television show, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, which aired from 2006 to 2012. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014 as a member of Kiss. Simmons was born Chaim Witz on August 25, 1949, in Haifa, Israel, to Jewish refugees from Hungary. His mother, Flóra Kovács (later Florence Klein, then Florence Lubowski) (1925–2018), was born in Jánd in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. She survived internment in Nazi concentration camps from November 1944 to her liberation from the Mauthausen camp in Austria on May 5, 1945. She and her brother, Larry Klein, were the only members of the family to survive the Holocaust.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Gene Simmons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 2 of Hearts

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Gene Simmons, and not a forecast of induction.

Genuine diplomacy and emotional attunement

Simmons is also known for his long tongue and for his reality television show, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, which aired from 2006 to 2012.

Paired on relationship and feeling — the domain ♥ governs in this system. Markers in the record: family.

Also on the record

1. Witz's father, Ferenc "Feri" Yehiel Witz (1925–2002), was a carpenter whom Klein married in 1946; the couple moved to Mandatory Palestine the following year.
2. Witz spent his early childhood in Tirat Carmel and was raised in a practicing Jewish household.
3. He has said that his family was "dirt poor", scraping by on rationed bread and milk.
4. At the age of seven, he began to pick wild fruit and sell it on roadsides together with a friend.

Other inductees with this card

• Brent Mydland — 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead
• Bruce Springsteen — 1999 Performers
• Charlotte Caffey — 2021 Performers with The Go-Go's
• Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels — 2009 Performers with Run-DMC
• Eddie Kendricks — 1989 Performers with The Temptations
• Elvin Bishop — 2015 Performers with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
• Elvis Costello — 2003 Performers with Elvis Costello & the Attractions
• Harvey Fuqua — 2000 Performers with The Moonglows
• Ian Paice — 2016 Performers with Deep Purple
• John Bonham — 1995 Performers with Led Zeppelin
• Lee Loughnane — 2016 Performers with Chicago
• Matt Sorum — 2012 Performers with Guns N' Roses
• 10 more inductees share this card.

FAQ

What is Gene Simmons's birth card?

The Ace of Clubs. August 25 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.

Where do Gene Simmons's dates come from?

Birth date 1949-08-25 is the day-precision date on Gene Simmons's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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