Name: Billie Joe Armstrong
Date of birth: February 17th, 1972
Place of birth: Rodeo, California
Family: wife Adrienne, kids Joseph Marciano and Jakob Danger
Band position: lead singer, guitarist and songwriter
Plays: guitar, drums, harmonica, mandolin, piano and saxophone
Childhood:
One of the influental people in punk rock music, as he was ranked, Billie Joe, was born on February 17, 1972 in Rodeo, California, as the youngest of 6 children. His dad, Andy, was a jazz musician and a truck driver for safeway, who passed away of lung cancer, in September 1982, Billie Joe was only 10. His mother was a waitress at a restaurant called Rod's Hickory Pit. As far as he started to talk he also began to sing and got used to go around to hospitals and sing to patients to cheer them up! Billie Joe's first song was Look For Love. When he was 5, he recorded this song for the locally based Fiat Records.
Appearance:
Billie has green eyes. His hair color is naturally brown, but through the years has gone many coolers ranging from blue to blond! He currently has black hair. He is 5'6. He once had a nose ring, which he no longer wears as it kept getting caught on his guitar. He has the names of his family tattooed on his arms, also 5 piercing which can all be found in the ear.