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Billie Joe Armstrong was brought into this world on February 17, 1972, the youngest of six children. His father was a jazz musician and a truck driver, while his mother was a waitress at a local resturant named Rod's Hickory Pit as well as a huge country music fan. Billie started singing when he was just 5 years old. He would go around to hospitals and sing to the patients to make them feel better. Then he got to record his first song, "Looking for Love" at a local recording company named Fiat Records. Billie's father finally decided to give him an electric guitar, the infamous "Blue". Billie still uses Blue to this day and has several replicas of it. The guitar would be the last gift his father would ever give him. At the age of 10, Billie's father died of cancer to the esphogaus which spread throughout his body. His mother continued to work at Rod's Hickory Pit in Vallejo, California, to support herself and her six kids. Billie Joe and Mike later worked there as busboys. Billie was 10 when he met Mike Dirnt in the school cafeteria in 1982. Then him and his two brothers Matt and Eric were introduced to punk rock. Soon Billie, Mike, and a drummer named John formed a punk band and named themselves Sweet Children. One day before his 18th birthday, and halfway through his senior year of high school, Billie dropped out of school to devote all his time to Sweet Children. He knew what he wanted to do: play music. John soon left the band to attend college, so a new drummer named Tre Cool was recruited. Later, Sweet Children was renamed Green Day. Before they knew it, they were traveling all over the country with little money and staying at fan's houses. It was in Minneapolis in 1990 when Billie first laid eyes on his future wife, a girl named Adrienne Nesser. They dated awhile and then were married on July 2, 1994, a 5 minute ceremony. The day after their wedding, Adrienne found out she was pregnant. Their son, Joseph Marcicano Armstrong, was born in March of 1995. Three years later on September 12, 1998, another boy, Jakob Danger was added to the Armstrong family. Today, Billie, Adrienne, Joseph, and Jakob reside in Berkeley, California. My favorite Billie fact: Billie's cat, Zero, died in his washing machine.