Billie Joe Armstrong's 2 Kids: All About Joey and Jakob

Mar. 15, 2025

Joseph Armstrong, Adrienne Armstrong, Billie Joe Armstrong and Jakob Armstrong attend the 30th Annual Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony at Public Hall on April 18, 2015 in Cleveland, Ohio.Photo:Kevin Mazur/WireImage

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Billie Joe Armstrongmay be a rocker in the public eye but at home, he is a dad to two sons, Joey and Jakob Armstrong.

The Green Day frontman was 22 when he married his wife Adrienne Armstrong in July 1994, and a day later the couple discovered Adrienne was pregnant. Their first son, Joey, was born the following year, while Jakob joined the family in 1998.

“As a young parent, it’s likeyou always want to have the right answeror come up with the right solution, and that’s difficult to do,” Billie told PEOPLE in 2024. “But then all of a sudden, they get to an age where they have their own wisdom and their own solutions, and they’re able to share them with me.”

“So it’s like you come full circle in a lot of ways. It’s like friendship, but it’s a bigger, broader bond, which I’m really proud to have with my sons,” he added. “They’re really smart people.”

Here’s everything to know about Billie Joe Armstrong’s children, Joey and Jakob.

Joey Armstrong, 30

Billie Joe Armstrong and his sons Joey and Jakob.Adrienne Armstrong/Instagram

Adrienne Armstrong/Instagram

Billie and Adrienne welcomed Joey onFeb. 28, 1995. The couple learned that they were expecting their first child the day after they tied the knot.

Speaking toRolling Stonein 1995, Billie revealed that Adrienne said she’d been “feeling weird lately,” so they picked up a pregnancy test. “We’re at home waiting for the results and each wanting the other one to go check,” he recalled. “Finally I said, [F—] it,’ and went into the other room. Sure enough, we had the big purple line.”

The “American Idiot” singer’s firstborn grew up to be a musician like him. During an appearance onThe Trap Setin 2019, Joey shared that his dad pushed him to “study as much and different varieties of music as possible.” He acknowledged that he’s fortunate his father encouraged him to “explore music and have just an appreciation for all music.”

Adrienne Armstrong with her sons Joey and Jakob.Adrienne Armstrong/Instagram

Discussing having “a family that supports the arts," Joey said in a 2019interview with Jon Foss, “For me, it was a no-brainer. It’s like ‘Yeah, I’m gonna pick up drums and, you know, play music and share that with the world’ and my parents like, 1. like both supported me, but then 2. … every day I was getting a music history lesson from my dad and from my mom.”

Joey and his younger brother Jakob have jammed with their famous dad. In 2020, Billie and his two sonscoveredTommy James & the Shondells’ song “I Think We’re Alone Now"forTheLate Late Show With James Corden.

Becker confirmed in a video message in 2022, viaNME, that Joey and another band member had “stepped away from the band to grow their personal lives.”

Jakob Armstrong, 26

Billie Joe Armstrong and his son Jakob.Adrienne Armstrong/Instagram

Billie and Adrienne welcomed their second son, Jakob, onSept. 12, 1998. He is often referred to as “Boo” on his mom’s Instagram account.

Jakob admitted in the interview that he didn’t know that music was his “vocation” until his late teens. “I had already graduated high school and I’d been playing with the guys in my band for a long time,” he said. “I tried going to college, but after about a year I realized that I did not enjoy it. I missed playing music so much.”

In 2015, Adrienne shared a photo onInstagramof Jakob from his “first show.” PerRolling Stone, he and his band, Jakob Danger, released their debut EP in October of that year.

Jakob pointed out toNMEthat his music is “not at all related to” his father. He explained in 2015, “It’s my own personal thing. I don’t really worry too much about that. I just think: this is my music, it’s different from my father’s, and if people want to listen to it, they can.”

While his dad is the frontman for the rock band Green Day, Jakob toldNMEthat his two favorite bands, The Strokes and Beach Fossils, are his biggest influences. He confessed toTotal Guitarthat there was a time when he did not want to make punk music because his “dad makes that type of stuff,” but noted now he doesn’t “really care anymore.”

“I’m doing what interests me and what’s going to keep me wanting to be in a band,” he said. “There are absolutely going to be tracks that remind people of that, but it is what it is.”

Jakob is now a member of the band Ultra Q,formerly known as Mt. Eddy. In addition to jamming on theLate Late Showwith his brother, Jakob has rocked out onstage with his father. At the Shaky Knees Festival in 2022, Billie gave his son a shout-outsaying, “Hey, it’s my son Jakob on guitar right there.”

On hisInstagram page, Jakob regularly shares posts from Ultra Qperformances and tours, as well asphotographs he has takenof himself and the band.

source: people.com