Name:Billie Joe Armstrong
date of Birth : February 17, 1972
Plays : Vocals, Guitar
Also Plays : Harmonica, Mandolin, Drums, Piano
Has Also Played With : Pinhead Gunpowder, Blatz,
Rancid, the Lookouts, Goodbye Harry, Corrupted Morals
Family : wife, Adrienne ( Nesser, married July 1994);
son, Joseph Marciano (born March 1995); son, Jacob Danger (born September 1998)
His Story:He was the youngest of six of a family in Rodeo, California.
His father was a truck driver and part time jazz musician who died of cancer when Billie Joe was ten,
his mother a waitress and diehard country music fan.
As a child, Billie would sing at hospitals to cheer patients up. He also recorded a song called "Look For Love" for the locally
based Fiat Records when he was five. The first album Billie Joe bought was Elvis Presley's The Sun Sessions.
Soon after a couple friends got him hooked on punk bands like DOA, TSOL, and the Dead Kennedys.
At age eleven, Billie got his first guitar, a blue Stratocaster that he plays to this day. He wrote his first song, "Why Do You Want Him", when he was 14.
He is also the co-founder
and partial owner of the independant label Adeline Records.
My Thoughts:Truly the heart of Green Day
