Editing Paul Stanley (section)

==Early life==
Stanley Bert Eisen was raised in upper [[Manhattan]], New York City, 211th Street and Broadway.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leaf |first1=David |last2=Sharp |first2=Ken |title=KISS: Behind the Mask - The Official Authorized Biography |date=June 2, 2005 |publisher=Grand Central Publishing |isbn=978-0-446-69524-4 |page=25}}</ref> Both of his parents were Jewish. He was the younger of two children; his sister Julia<ref name= Getlen>{{cite news |url= https://nypost.com/2014/04/06/kiss-paul-stanley-tells-all-in-new-memoir/ |title=Paul Stanley: KISS members were anti-Semites|date=April 6, 2014| first= Larry| last= Getlen |newspaper=New York Post|access-date=October 21, 2014}}</ref> is two years older. Their mother Eva Jontof-Hutter<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-04 |title=Eva Eisen |url=https://www.geni.com/people/Eva-Eisen/6000000002765905416 |access-date=2024-08-11 |website=geni_family_tree |language=en-US}}</ref> came from a family that fled [[Nazi Germany]] for [[Amsterdam]], the Netherlands, and then to New York City. His father William Eisen's parents Rebecca and Harry Eisenhandler were from Poland.<ref>{{Cite web |title=William Eisen Obituary (2021) - Los Angeles, CA - Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/william-eisen-obituary?id=31617027 |access-date=2024-08-11 |website=Legacy.com}}</ref> Stanley was raised Jewish, although he did not consider his family very observant and did not celebrate his [[bar and bat mitzvah|bar mitzvah]].<ref>{{cite book| last1= Stanley |first1=Paul|title=Face the Music: A Life Exposed| date= April 8, 2014|publisher=HarperOne|isbn=978-0-06-211404-4|url=http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062114044/face-the-music|quote=My family lit candles and observed Jewish holidays in some vague ways, but we weren't very observant. I was never bar mitzvahed. . . . sure, I felt Jewish, but I didn't want to subject myself to being around any more people.}}</ref> His parents listened to classical music and [[light opera]]; Stanley was greatly moved by [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]]'s works.

Since Stanley's right ear was misshapen from a birth defect called [[microtia]] and he was unable to hear on that side, he found it difficult to determine the direction of a sound, and was unable to understand speech in a noisy environment.<ref>{{cite book |title=Face the Music: A Life Exposed |last=Stanley |first=Paul |publisher= HarperCollins |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-06-211406-8 |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v8JnAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT10|quote=I was born with an ear deformity called ''microtia'', in which the outer ear cartilage fails to form properly and, to varying degrees of severity, leaves you with just a crumpled mass of cartilage. . . . That left me unable to tell the direction of sound, and more importantly, made it incredibly difficult for me to understand people when there was any kind of background noise or conversation.}}</ref> Attending [[PS 98]], he was taunted by other children for his deformed ear.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Duca |first1=Lauren |title=Kiss Frontman Paul Stanley Was Born With Only One Ear, Had A Generally Nightmarish Childhood |url= https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-stanley-one-ear_n_5153269?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJVyola-gpA9lVDiwPA1torci2j2Zj5MbWM5NOvFxigzJHoTp2g1Kl6_pfxGpeJXDc0s5uJsgxyd6y9aZDohciEJnYcY5lE5jt3UKthLN9LFv1gxlD8cAIZmeSddx_8kUvG76CpRlorrKd-CTfx8R7jVgIB9CAGGxsp3aGmQFYnR |website=The Huffington Post |date=April 15, 2014 |access-date=August 28, 2019}}</ref>

Despite his hearing problem, Stanley enjoyed listening to music, and he watched ''[[American Bandstand]]'' on television. His favorite musical artists included [[Eddie Cochran]], [[Dion and the Belmonts]], [[Jerry Lee Lewis]], and [[Little Richard]]. Stanley learned to sing harmony with his family, and he was given a child's guitar at age seven.<ref name="Leaf Sharp 25-26">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PmjH8wadHioC&pg=PT25 |pages=25–26 |title=KISS: Behind the Mask – Official Authorized Biography |last1=Leaf |first1=David |last2=Sharp |first2=Ken |publisher=Hachette Digital |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-446-55350-6}}</ref><ref>Stanley 2014, pp. 11–14</ref>

Stanley's family relocated to the [[Kew Gardens, Queens|Kew Gardens]] neighborhood in [[Queens]] in 1960.<ref>Leaf/Sharp 2008, p. 24</ref> He listened to a lot of [[doo-wop]] music, but when [[the Beatles]] and [[the Rolling Stones]] played on U.S. television he was inspired by the performance aspect, which he thought was not out of his reach. Stanley received his first real guitar at age 13, an acoustic one that he would have preferred to be electric. He played tunes by [[Bob Dylan]], [[the Byrds]], [[the Lovin' Spoonful]] and more.<ref name="Leaf Sharp 25-26"/>

All through his childhood Stanley had been recognized for his talent in graphic arts, so he attended the [[High School of Music & Art]] in New York City, graduating in 1970.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alumniandfriends.org/notablealumni |title=Notable Alumni |publisher=Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts |website=alumniandfriends.org |access-date=August 4, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225083912/http://www.alumniandfriends.org/notablealumni |archive-date=February 25, 2009 }}</ref>