Billie Joe Armstrong

Billie Joe Armstrong is an American musician, singer, songwriter and actor who is best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter, and guitarist of the punk rock band Green Day, which he cofounded with Mike Dirnt. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder and provides lead vocals for Green Days side projects Foxboro Hot Tubs and The Network.

Billie Joe Armstrong was born in Oakland, California and raised in nearby Rodeo, the youngest of six children of Andrew Andy Armstrong and Ollie Jackson. His father worked as a jazz musician and truck driver for Safeway Inc. to support his family. He died of esophageal cancer on September 10, 1982. The song Wake Me Up When September Ends is a memorial to his father. He has five older siblings David, Alan, Marci, Hollie, and Anna. His mother worked at Rods Hickory Pit restaurant in El Cerrito, where Armstrong and Dirnt played their first gig in 1987. Armstrong is of ScotchIrish, English, Scottish, Italian, Spanish, German, and Welsh descent.

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