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Paul Stanley, born Stanley Eisen, co-founded Kiss in 1973 and, as its rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist performing under the Starchild persona, wrote or co-wrote many of the band's best-known songs across a run that lasted until 2023. Trade polls have ranked him among rock's top frontmen and metal vocalists, and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the band in 2014.