Billie Joe Armstrong was born February 17,1972. He was the youngest of six cildren.His father was a jazzmusician and also a truck driver. His mother was a waitress at a local restraunt name is Rod's Hickory Pit.She was also a huge country music fan. Billie started singing at just 5 years old. He would go around to hospitals and sing to patients to make them feel better.Then he got to record his first song "Looking for Love" at a local recording company named flat records. Billie's father finally decided to give him a electric guitar, the infamous "Blue". Billie still uses Blue to this day and has replicas of it.The guitar would be his last gift from his father would ever give him. At the age of 10, Billie's father died of cancer to the espahogus which had spread through his body. His mother continued to work at Rod's Hickory Pit in Vallejo,Califronia, to support her six kids.Billie Joe and Mike worked there as busboys.
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