# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/billie-joe-armstrong
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:34:30.913Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/billie-joe-armstrong"
name: "Billie Joe Armstrong"
slug: "billie-joe-armstrong"
description: "Billie Joe Armstrong is an American musician, songwriter and actor. He is best known for being the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Green Day, which he co-founded with Mike Dirnt in 1987. 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. Armstrong has been considered by critics as one of the greatest punk rock guitarists of all time, as well as one of the greatest punk rock singers of all time."
tagline: "American rock musician (born 1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RiP2013_GreenDay_Billie_Joe_Armstrong_0021.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1972-02-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           60.6
  momentum:             0.9854877212886146
  historical:           27.346452
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/billiejoe"
    handle:    "billiejoe"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/billiejoearmstrong/"
    handle:    "billiejoearmstrong"
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    handle:    "1MrEurzLcL8ugfP1PrUPWG"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump