Billie Joe Armstrong
Guitarist — born 1972
Billie Joe Armstrong is an American singer, songwriter, musician and guitarist.
Billie Joe Armstrong is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and the lead vocalist and guitarist of punk-rock band Green Day — one of the American punk-rock acts of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He was born Billie Joe Armstrong on February 17, 1972, in Oakland, California, into an working-class family — his father Andy Armstrong was a jazz musician and truck driver. His father died of esophageal cancer when Billie Joe was ten — an loss that shaped his later songwriting.
His 1986 founding of Green Day with high-school classmate Mike Dirnt — initially as the punk band Sweet Children at Pinole Valley High School in Pinole, California — was renamed Green Day in 1989. The 1989 lineup of Armstrong, Dirnt, and drummer Tré Cool (who replaced original drummer John Kiffmeyer in 1990) has been continuously the Green Day lineup for over 35 years.
The 1990 Lookout! Records debut album 39/Smooth and the 1992 second album Kerplunk launched the Green Day Bay Area-area punk-rock following. The 1994 Reprise Records third album Dookie — the major-label debut — sold over 20 million copies worldwide and produced the singles "Longview," "Basket Case," and "When I Come Around." The 1994 commercial breakthrough established Green Day as one of the American punk-rock acts of the mid-1990s.
Their 2004 seventh album American Idiot — the punk rock-opera concept-album about post-9/11 American political-and-cultural alienation — sold over 16 million copies worldwide and won the 2005 Best Rock Album Grammy. The 2009 Broadway musical adaptation American Idiot ran from April 2010 to April 2011 and was nominated for the 2010 Best Musical Tony Award. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. Armstrong has been with Adrienne Nesser since 1994, and the couple has two musician sons (Joey Armstrong and Jakob Armstrong).
His name Billie is the English short form of William or Wilhelmina (from the Old Germanic Wilhelm). Billie has been continuously among the most-popular American gender-neutral names for decades.
About the name Billie
Gender: Male · Origin: English
Nickname For William Resolute Protector - Often Used As An Independent Name.