Kiss bassist Gene Simmons descended on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee in support of a bill that requires the radio industry to pay artists when their music is played.

Ahead of the hearing, the rock superstar told the Washington Examiner in an interview that this bill is about protecting the next Elvis Presley .

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“America invented the music of planet Earth: rock ‘n’ roll, blues, jazz, hip hop, country and western,” Simmons said in the interview. “The king of rock ‘n’ roll was born i

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