Paul Stanley

Paul Stanley is proof that showmanship is a discipline, not a gimmick. Behind the Starchild makeup was a kid from Queens who studied at a music and art high school and understood, earlier than almost anyone, that rock could be theater on an arena scale. What I admire is the consistency: he wrote or co-wrote many of the band's defining songs, fronted Kiss for half a century, and treated every night like the audience's only chance to see the spectacle. That work ethic is deeply unglamorous, which is the irony of the most glamorous-looking man in rock. To me he is less a rock star than a craftsman who chose spectacle as his trade.

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Name (English)

Paul Stanley

Name (Japanese)

ポール・スタンリー

Reading

ぽーる・すたんりー

Born

January 20, 1952 (age 74)

Origin

Queens, New York, United States

Occupation

singer / guitarist / songwriter / rock musician / musician

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dragon

High school

High School of Music & Art

• Official sitehttps://www.paulstanley.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/paulstanleylive/
• Xhttps://x.com/PaulStanleyLive
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Stanley
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%83%AC%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q295542

Tags

• New York
• singer
• guitarist
• songwriter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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