Prominent Band Vocalist

Billie Joe Armstrong was brought into the world February 17, 1972, the youngest of six children. His father, Andy, was a jazz musician and part-time truck driver for Safeway, while his mother was a waitress at a local restaurant named Rod Hickory Pit. Billie started singing when he was only 5 years. It would be touring the hospital and sing for patients to make them feel better. Then he got to record his first song, "Look of Love" to a local recording company named Fiat files. Billie got his first electric guitar, the famous "Blue" (a Fernandez Stratocaster), when he was 11 years old Billie still uses Blue to this day and have several copies of it. At age 10, died the father of Billie cancer of the esophagus which spread throughout his body. His mother continued to work at Rod Hickory Pit (a barbecue joint owned by Richard and Alice Cotton) in Vallejo, California, to support her and her six children. Billie Joe and Mike later worked as busboys.

Two years after the death of his father, his mother remarried a man that Billie and his siblings detested.

Billie was 10 when he met Mike Dirnt in the school cafeteria in 1982. During sleep overs at each other houses, they played songs by old warhorses of heavy metals such as Ozzy Osbourne, Def Leppard and Van Halen. Other influences would be the "thrash and Drang" of the culture of the Bay Area alternative music percolating throughout the eighties. Club Mabuhay Gardens and Berkeley's 924 Gilman Street regularly presented local bands like Dead Kennedys and Buck Naked. He wrote his first song, "Why do you want him," a song about his mother and stepfather when he was 14 to 15 years, served as Billie, Mike and a drummer named John punk band and named themselves Sweet Children. Their first concert was done at the Hickory Pit Rod. One day before his birthday 18 years, and half his year in high school, Billie dropped out of high school (Pinole Valley High School) to devote all his time to Sweet Children. He knew what he wanted to do - play music and the school was right of course. At this point, Billie had the nickname "Two Dollar Bill", in reference to the price joints he sold.

In 1990, John left the band to attend the College. Billie and Mike had the task of finding a new drummer. They knew that the perfect fit, Tre Cool, Vetrana Gilman Street, which was then playing the lookouts. Later, the name Sweet Children Green Day Before they knew it, they went around the country with his father three old Bookmobile is at the wheel. They did all this with little money and stay at home fans. It 'was in Minneapolis in 1990 when Billie has his eye on his future wife, a girl named Adrienne Nesser. They dated for a while 'and then got married July 2, 1994, a 5-minute ceremony. Day after the wedding, Adrienne found out she was pregnant. Their son, Joseph Marcicano Armstrong, was born in March 1995. Three years later, September 12, 1998, another boy, Jakob Danger was added to the Armstrong family. Today, Billie, Adrienne, Joseph, and Jakob reside in Oakland, California.