Īrmstrong attended Hillcrest Elementary School in Rodeo, where a teacher encouraged him to record a song titled "Look for Love" at the age of five on the Bay Area label Fiat Records. His great-great-grandparents Pietro Marsicano and Teresa Nigro were Italian immigrants from Viggiano who settled in Boston until 1869, when they moved to Berkeley, California.
His mother worked as a waitress at Rod's Hickory Pit in El Cerrito, California, where he and Mike Dirnt would play their first gig in 1987. Armstrong has three older sisters named Marci, Hollie, and Anna, and two older brothers named David and Alan. The song " Wake Me Up When September Ends" is a memorial to his father.
His father, a jazz musician and truck driver for Safeway, died of esophageal cancer in September 1982, when Armstrong was 10 years old. īillie Joe Armstrong was born in Oakland, California, on February 17, 1972, the youngest of six children of Ollie Jackson (born 1932) and Andrew Marciano Armstrong (1928–1982). The record company later shut down in August 2017. In 1997, to coincide with the release of Nimrod, he founded Adeline Records to help support other bands, signing acts such as The Frustrators, AFI, and Dillinger Four. Armstrong has also pursued musical projects including numerous collaborations with other musicians. The band later changed its name to Green Day. He met Dirnt while attending elementary school, and the two instantly bonded over their mutual interest in music, forming the band Sweet Children when the two were 14 years old. Īrmstrong developed an interest in music at a young age, and recorded his first song at the age of five. Armstrong has been considered by critics as one of the greatest punk rock guitarists of all time. He is also a guitarist and vocalist for the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder, and provides lead vocals for Green Day's side projects Foxboro Hot Tubs, The Network, The Longshot, and The Coverups. He is best known as the lead vocalist, primary songwriter, and lead guitarist of the rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt in 1987. When using a search engine such as Google, Bing or Yahoo check the safe search settings where you can exclude adult content sites from your search results Īsk your internet service provider if they offer additional filters īe responsible, know what your children are doing online.Billie Joe Armstrong (born February 17, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor. Use family filters of your operating systems and/or browsers
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