Billie Joe Armstrong

Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972 in Oakland, California) is the songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist for Punk-rock band Green Day.

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Armstrong was the youngest of six children born in Oakland and later raised in Rodeo, California, a suburb of Berkeley, California. His father, Andy, was a jazz musician and truck driver who died of cancer when Armstrong was ten. His mother was a waitress at Rod's Hickory Pit, which Billie and fellow bandmate Mike Dirnt and friend Brandon O'Lech ended up working at in their teen years. He insists that his name is spelled with an 'ie' because, according to the liner notes in 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, "Billie's mom spelled his name wrong on his birth certificate 'cuz she was on drugs from labour". He is the only member of Green Day who uses his real name.

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Oakland, California: Oakland, founded in 1852, is a major city on the east side (also called East Bay) of San Francisco Bay in Northern California in the United States. To its north lies Berkeley, home to the famous university campus (University of California, Berkeley). To its west stands San Francisco, across the Ba...

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