Early life
Madden was born to a middle class Irish-American family in Waldorf, Maryland. He has an identical twin brother, Benji Madden, who plays guitar in Good Charlotte. He has an older brother named Josh, and a younger sister named Sarah. Madden attended La Plata High School in La Plata, Maryland.
When Madden was 15 years old his father left the family, causing financial hardship for the family. Madden took up various odd jobs as a teenager to help his mother with the family's bills. One job he and his brother, Benji, took up was washing people's hair at a salon. While in his early 20s, Madden changed his last name from Combs, his father's name, to his mother's maiden name, Madden. He did this to distance himself from his father, who had left their family.
More about Joel Madden (From Wikipedia)
Early Life
Madden was born to a middle class Irish-American family in Waldorf, Maryland. He has an identical twin brother, Benji Madden, who plays guitar in Good Charlotte. He has an older read more...
Good Charlotte
In 1995, at the age of 16, Madden attended the Beastie Boys Ill Communication Tour with his brother Benji. Drawing from music introduced to them by their older brother Josh, such read more...
Other Projects
In the 2001 film Not Another Teen Movie, Joel and the other Good Charlotte members made a cameo as the band at the school's prom. He later had a cameo role in the 2004 film Fat Albert read more...
Personal Life
Later that year in December 2006, Madden and Nicole Richie became a couple. In June and July 2007, numerous media outlets were stating that Richie was pregnant with Madden's baby. read more...
Joel Reuben Madden (born Joel Ryan Reuben Combs on March 11, 1979) is an American singer well-known as the lead vocalist for the band Good Charlotte.
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