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FULL
NAME : Frank Edwin Wright III
AGE/BIRTHDATE
: 35; born December 9, 1972
HOMETOWN
: Willits, California, USA
EYE
COLOR : Blue
NATURAL
HAIR COLOR : Brown
HEIGHT
: 5'6 (?)
MARITAL
STATUS : Married his long time girlfriend Lisea Lyons in March of
1995. They divorced sometime after. In May 2000, he married Claudia. In
2003, he and Claudia broke up.
CHILDREN
: Ramona, born January 1995 to ex-wife, Lisea Lyons; Frankito
("Little Frank"), born 2001 to Claudia.
FAMILY
: Tre grew up with his father and 2 siblings. He now lives in
Oakland, California with his ex-wife, Claudia, and son, Frankito.
WHEELS
: A SUV.
INSTRUMENTS
: Drums, the accordion, and the guitar.
OTHER
BANDS : Tre has also played with The Lookouts and Samiam.

Frank Edwin Wright III was born December 9, 1972 in Frankfurt,
Germany, making him the youngest member of Green Day. He lived in the
Mendocino mountains, California with his dad and his 2 older siblings.
His dad, a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, decided the move the family
there to insulate them upon his return to the United States. Tre's
closest neighbor was none other than Lookout! Records owner Lawrence
Livermore, who also owned the punk band the Lookouts. At age 12,
Livermore recruited Tre to join The Lookouts, and that's when Livermore
gave him the name of Tre Cool (which means Very Cool in French). After
Green Day's first tour around the country (following the release of
39/Smooth), John Kriftmeyer decided to leave Green Day. Looking no
farther than Gilman Street, Billie Joe and Mike recruited Tre, who was
already a 5 year veteran of the Gilman Street scene.
Tre decided to drop out of high school his sophmore year. However,
he did pass an equivalency test and earned his GED, and he even began
taking classes at a nearby community college. He had to drop out of
college however, when the demands of Green Day's touring intensified.
Tre's father, who owns a small trucking company, overhauled a used
bookmobile, and even served as the driver on three seperate tours. "I
watched them go from a bunch of kids to a group of musicians with work
eithic," says Tre's father, Frank Wright. "On their first tour or two,
it was more of a party than anything else. I still scratch my head and
say, 'How in the hell did they make it?' They used to practice in my
living room here -- a lot of the songs they did on Dookie. You
hear it coming together, and you don't expect people are going to go out
and buy it. But when it does, you just say, 'Wow, that's so cool.'" (Rolling
Stone, January 26, 1995)
Tre had a
daughter named Ramona in January of 1995, then he married his long time
girlfriend Lisea Lyons in March. Him and Lisea are divorced now, but Tre
remarried in May of 2000, to Claudia. Claudia and him have a son named
Frankito, which means "Little Frank". Tre and Claudia divorced in 2003,
but they still live together with Frankito in Oakland, California.
Recently, Tre has been linked to Donna C., drummer of
The Donnas, however they are no longer together.
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