Biography Flash: Gene Simmons Testifies to Congress While Planning Solo Tour After Kennedy Center Honors
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Biography Flash: Gene Simmons Testifies to Congress While Planning Solo Tour After Kennedy Center Honors
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Gene Simmons has been everywhere in the last few days, blurring the line between elder statesman of rock and headline machine. In Washington, he stepped squarely into public policy, testifying before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the American Music Fairness Act, arguing that artists deserve to be paid for radio airplay and blasting broadcasters for keeping what he framed as billions in ad revenue while performers get nothing, as shown on coverage from CBS News and LiveNOW from FOX. Bloomberg Television’s Balance of Power then featured him expanding on that theme, likening current radio practices to being run over by a truck and insisting Congress and the president must act to protect the next generation of musicians.
Those political and economic moves came on the heels of a major cultural milestone: Simmons, alongside Paul Stanley and Peter Criss, reunited in tuxedos at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C., where Kiss was celebrated as part of the 48th annual class in a ceremony hosted by President Donald Trump, as reported by Blabbermouth and DC Theater Arts. The official Kennedy Center recap video underscores the emotional weight of that night, shadowed by the recent death of original guitarist Ace Frehley and Simmons’s own public comments that Ace heartbreakingly did not live long enough to sit in that hall and hear luminaries praise Kiss.
At the same time, Simmons is plotting his next business and touring chapter. Ultimate Classic Rock and BrooklynVegan report that he has announced U.S. solo dates for 2025 with the Gene Simmons Band, starting April 28 in Tallahassee and moving through Beaver Dam, Red Bank, Dallas, and Houston, a continuation of the post–farewell-tour strategy that saw Kiss sell their catalog and IP to Pophouse and develop an ABBA-style avatar show expected to launch in 2027. In interviews flagged by rock media and Eddie Trunk’s site, Simmons has also been weighing in on artificial intelligence in music and boasting that his solo gigs, minus the iconic makeup, are both more comfortable and more lucrative than his old Kiss paydays.
On social media, the biggest Simmons-related flashpoint this week was his apology on X for earlier comments tying Ace Frehley’s death to “bad decisions,” which Metalsucks reports he now calls wrong and hurtful, stressing that he has always loved his late bandmate. That walk-back, along with public defenses from figures like Dee Snider noted by Alternative Nation, shows Simmons still understands the fine line between blunt honesty and legacy-threatening backlash.
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