“The two of us had a similar upbringing. It’s aunique position – our dads are the biggest rock stars around”: Evan Stanley and Nick Simmons are making Kiss a rock ’n’ roll dynasty – just don't mistake their music for their fathers'

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Evan Stanley and Nick Simmons have known each other since they were babies. After all, their fathers – Kiss co-founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons – have been bandmates since the early Seventies.

Considering all that, the thought of the younger Stanley and Simmons making music together seems like a foregone conclusion. But it didn’t happen until a chance hangout in December 2024, which led to an Instagram cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence.