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Billie Joe ArmstrongBillie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is the lead vocalist and guitarist for punk rock band Green Day. Armstrong was the youngest of six kids and lived in Rodeo, California. His father was a truck driver who died of cancer when Armstrong was ten, his mother is a waitress. Right before Billie's father died he gave to his son a present, his first guitar, which Billie nicknamed "Blue". It was a Fernandes Stratocaster copy and to this day he still uses replicas of the guitar. The first song he wrote was called "Why Do You Want Him" and was written when he was 14 (his mom was dating someone he didn't like and Billie wrote the song asking his mother "Why Do You Want Him?") in 1986. The song appears on Green Day's debut album on Lookout! Records, 39/Smooth. During his stay in school he was nicknamed "Two Dollar Bill", because he was supplying the school with joint for two dollars. In 1989, Billie Joe's band with Mike Dirnt and Al Sobrante, The Sweet Children changed their name to Green Day and started touring for the first time. In 1991 Sobrante left Green Day for college and was replaced with Tre Cool, but he remained a close friend of the band and produced their second album Kerplunk. Armstrong's long time girlfriend Adrienne Nesser joined him in California in June 1994 after she graduated from Mankato State University, Minnesota with a degree in sociology. They married in July 1994 and had two children, Joseph Marciano (born March 1995) and Jakob Danger (born September 1998). He and his wife are co-founders and part owners of the independent label Adeline Records, and he has a side band called Pinhead Gunpowder, which is on Lookout! Records. He stated that he is bisexual in an interview in The Advocate, January 24, 1995. http://web.archive.org/web/20010221015040/www.advocate.com/html/stories/822/822_greenday672_3.asp External Links Armstrong, Billie Joe Armstrong, Billie Joe Armstrong, Billie Joe Armstrong, Billie Joe
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