Joseph marciano armstrong height Continue This biography of a living person needs additional appointments for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about people who are not sourced or bad source should be removed immediately, especially if potentially defamation or harmful. Find sources: Billie Joe Armstrong – news · newspapers · books · the scholar · JSTOR (February 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Billie Joe ArmstrongArmstrong playing at Rock im Park in 2013A better known asWilhelm FinkFinkReverend Strychnine TwitchBorn (1972-02-17) February 17, 1972 (age 48)Oakland, California, USA OriginRodeo, California, United States Genres Punk rock punk alternative rock Occupation(s) Song composer Singer producer actor Vocal instruments Guitar bass harmonica drums Mandolin Years active1977–present[1] Tags Reprise Lookout Adeline Recess Warner Bros. Crush Music Associated The Spanish Civil War (July 17, 1936 – April 1, 1939) was a 1939 it was a 1939, which was a 1936, which was a 1939, which was a 1939, which was a historical event that had about 100,000 comments. Armstrong is the lead vocalist, lead composer and lead guitarist of the punk rock band Green Day, co-founded with Mike Dirnt. He is also a guitarist and vocalist of the punk rock band Pinhead Gunpowder, and offers lead vocals for Green Day Foxboro Hot Tubs, The Network, The Longshot and The Coverups. Raised in Rodeo, California, Armstrong developed an interest in music at an early age, and recorded his first song at the age of five. He met Mike Dirnt while attending primary school, and the two instantly joined in on their mutual interest in music, forming the band Sweet Children when the two were 14. The band changed its name to Green Day, and later achieved commercial success. Armstrong has also pursued musical projects outside of Green Day's work, including numerous collaborations with other musicians. In 1997, coinciding with nimrod's release, Armstrong founded Adeline Records in Oakland to help support other bands releasing music, and signed bands such as The Frustrators, AFI and Dillinger Four. The record company was later put under the direction of Pat Magnarella and finally closed in August 2017. [3] Armstrong was born in Oakland, California,[4] and raised in nearby Rodeo, the youngest of six children of Ollie Jackson (born 1932)[5] and Andrew Marciano Armstrong (1928–1982). [6] Armstrong's father, a jazz musician and truck driver from Safeway, died of esophagus cancer[6] in September 1982, when Armstrong was 10 years old. The song Wake Me Up When September Ends is a memorial to his father. It has five grains: large: Alan, Marci, Hollie and Anna. Her mother worked as a waitress at Rod's Hickory Pit restaurant in El Cerrito, where Armstrong and Dirnt played their first concert in 1987. Armstrong's great-grandparents Pietro Marsicano and Teresa Nigro were Italian immigrants from Viggiano, Basilicata who moved to Boston, Massachusetts before arriving in Berkeley, California in 1869. [7] For this, he received honorary citizenship from Viggiano in June 2018 by Mayor Amedeo Cicala. [8] He is also of Scottish-Irish, English, Scottish, Spanish, German and Welsh descent. [citation needed] Armstrong's interest in music began at an early age. He 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. [9] After his father's death, his mother married a man whom his children did not like, which resulted in Armstrong's withdrawal from music. [citation needed] At the age of 10, Armstrong met Mike Dirnt in the school cafeteria, and they immediately joined in about their love of music. [6] He became interested in punk rock after being introduced to the genre by his brothers. [10] Armstrong has also cited Minneapolis-based bands The Replacements and Hüsker Dü as major musical influences. The first concert Armstrong saw was Van Halen in 1984. Armstrong and Dirnt's first live performance under the name Green Day was in Davis, a city about an hour's drive northeast of the San Francisco Bay Area. [citation needed] Along with Hillcrest Elementary, Armstrong attended Carquinez Middle School and John Swett High School, both at Crockett, and later moved to Pinole Valley High School. On his 18th birthday (February 17, 1990), he left to pursue his musical career. [citation needed] Early career In 1987, at the age of 15, Armstrong formed a band called Sweet Children with his childhood friend Mike Dirnt. At first, Armstrong and Dirnt played guitar, with Raj Punjabi[11] on drums[12] and Sean Hughes on bass. Punjabi was later replaced on drums by John Kiffmeyer, also known as Al Sobrante. After a few performances, Hughes left the band in 1988; Saying then he started playing bass and they became a three-piece band. They changed their name to Green Day in April 1989, choosing the name because of their fondness for marijuana. [13] In 1989, Green Day released its debut EP 1000 Hours through Lookout! Records. They recorded their debut studio album 39/Smooth and the slappy play in 1990, which later combined with 1,000 Hours on compilation 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours 1991. In 1990, Armstrong provided lead guitar and supporting vocals in three songs for the final EP IV of The Lookouts, which featured Tré Cool on drums. Tré became a Green Day drummer in the late 1990s after Sobrante went to college. Cool made his debut Green Day's second album, Kerplunk (1991). In 1991, Armstrong joined the band Pinhead Gunpowder, formed by bassist Bill Schneider, drummer Aaron Cometbus, and fellow vocalist and guitarist Sarah Kirsch. Kirsch left the group in 1992, and was replaced by Jason White. The group has published several plays and albums from 1991 to the present day, and performs live shows intermittently. [14] In 1993, Armstrong played live several times with the Californian punk band Rancid. Rancid's lead singer, Tim Armstrong, asked Billie Joe Armstrong to join her band, but refused because of her progress with Green Day. However, Billie Joe Armstrong was credited as a co-writer on Rancid's 1993 song, Radio. 1994–present: main success, collaborations and musical theatre With its third LP, Dookie (1994), Green Day burst into the mainstream, and have remained one of the most popular rock bands of the 90s and 2000s with more than 60 million records sold worldwide. [15] The album was followed by Insomniac (1995), Nimrod (1997) and Warning (2000). Armstrong collaborated with many artists. He co-wrote the song Unforgiven from The Go-Go in 2001. He has also co-written songs with Penelope Houston (The Angel and The Jerk and New Day), and has sung supporting vocals with Melissa Auf der Maur in Ryan Adams's Do Miss America (where they performed as an Iggy Pop support band on their album Skull Ring (Private Hell and Supermarket). Armstrong produced an album for The Riverdales. He was part of The Network's Green Day project from 2003 to 2005. The Network released an album, Money Money 2020, in 2003. Hoping to clear his head and develop new ideas for songs, Armstrong traveled to New York only for a few weeks in 2003, renting a small apartment in Manhattan's East Village. [16] He spent much of that time taking long walks and participating in jam sessions in the basement of Hi-Fi, a bar in Manhattan. [17] However, the friends he made during this time drank too much for his taste, which was the catalyst for Armstrong's return to the Bay Area. [17] After returning home, Armstrong was arrested on DUI charges on January 5, 2003, and released on $1,200 bail. [17] In 2004, Green Day debuted American Idiot, his first rock opera. The album has sold more than 15,000,000 copies worldwide, fueled by the hits American Idiot, Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Wake Me Up When September Ends. [18] In 2009, Green Day released 21st Century Breakdown, the band's second rock opera, which was another commercial success. Armstrong was the lead vocalist of the Foxboro Hot Tubes project on Green Day, which was formed in 2007 and since then he has performed intermittent live shows. Foxboro Hot Tubs released an album, Stop Drop and Roll!!!, in 2008. [21] In 2009, Armstrong formed a band called Rodeo Queens, along with members of Green Day. Day. New York punk rocker Jesse Malin. They released a song, along with a video, called Depression Times. [22] In 2009, American Idiot was adapted into a Broadway musical, also called American Idiot. [23] The musical won two Tony Awards. Armstrong appeared in American Idiot in the role of St. Jimmy for two seasons in late 2010[24][25] and early 2011. [26] In 2012, Green Day released a trio of albums: ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré!. [27] In 2013, Armstrong appeared on the third season of NBC's The Voice as an assistant mentor to Christina Aguilera's team. [28] In 2013, Armstrong and singer-songwriter Norah Jones released the album Foreverly, which consisted of song versions of The Everly Brothers' Songs Our Daddy Taught Us album. [29] The album's first single, Long Time Gone, was released on October 23. Armstrong also collaborated with the comedy hip hop group Lonely Island on his song I Run NY from The Wack Album released on June 7, 2013. [30] She starred alongside Leighton Meester in the 2014 film Like Sunday, Like Rain. [31] For her work on the film, Bilie Joe won the Breakout Performance Award at the 2014 Williamsburg Independent Film Festival.